# The Monk

The Monk by M. G. Lewis has 136,996 words.

## At a glance

1796 novel by Matthew Lewis.

- **Author:** [M. G. Lewis](https://musael.com/books/authors/m-g-lewis.md) (1775–1818)
- **First published:** 1796
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 136,996
- **Reading time:** 9 h 8 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 14 h 44 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 11 h 25 min | 23 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 8 min | 19 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 37 min | 16 days |

## Read or listen

The Monk is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/m-g-lewis/the-monk
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 137,173
- Chapters: 12
- Dialogue: 33% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/m-g-lewis/the-monk (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2659564
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monk
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13116995W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-monk