# The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham has 74,671 words.

## At a glance

1919 novel by W Somerset Maugham.

- **Author:** [W. Somerset Maugham](https://musael.com/books/authors/w-somerset-maugham.md) (1874–1965)
- **First published:** 1919
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 74,671
- **Reading time:** 4 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 2 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 13 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 59 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 9 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/w-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/222

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 75,011
- Chapters: 58
- Dialogue: 29% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/w-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/222 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1792726
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL505740W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/222

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-moon-and-sixpence