# The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne has 104,142 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

- **Author:** [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://musael.com/books/authors/nathaniel-hawthorne.md) (1804–1864)
- **First published:** 1851
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 104,142
- **Reading time:** 6 h 57 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 12 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 41 min | 18 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 57 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 47 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

The House of the Seven Gables is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 105,915
- Dialogue: 21% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 22.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1141732
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455288W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-house-of-the-seven-gables