# The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens has 302,088 words.

## At a glance

1837 novel by Charles Dickens.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1836
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 302,088
- **Reading time:** 20 h 8 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 32 h 29 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 25 h 10 min | 51 days |
| 250 wpm | 20 h 8 min | 41 days |
| 300 wpm | 16 h 47 min | 34 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/the-pickwick-papers
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/580

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 300,426
- Chapters: 8
- Average sentence: 13.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/the-pickwick-papers (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/580 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460583
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8763776W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/580

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-pickwick-papers