# The Passionate Elopement

The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie has 107,848 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Compton MacKenzie](https://musael.com/books/authors/compton-mackenzie.md) (1883–1972)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 107,848
- **Reading time:** 7 h 11 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 36 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 59 min | 18 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 11 min | 15 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 59 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38177

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 107,848
- Dialogue: 29% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38177 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1167544W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38177

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-passionate-elopement