# The Pirate

The Pirate by Walter Scott has 198,397 words.

## At a glance

1822 novel by Walter Scott.

- **Author:** [Walter Scott](https://musael.com/books/authors/walter-scott.md) (1771–1832)
- **First published:** 1822
- **Original language:** Scots
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 198,397
- **Reading time:** 13 h 14 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 21 h 20 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 16 h 32 min | 34 days |
| 250 wpm | 13 h 14 min | 27 days |
| 300 wpm | 11 h 1 min | 23 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42389

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 198,397
- Chapters: 43
- Dialogue: 42% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 28.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42389 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3225628
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL863788W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42389

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

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