# The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope has 53,951 words.

## At a glance

1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope.

- **Author:** [Anthony Hope](https://musael.com/books/authors/anthony-hope.md) (1863–1933)
- **First published:** 1894
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 53,951
- **Reading time:** 3 h 36 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 48 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 30 min | 9 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 36 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h | 6 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anthony-hope/the-prisoner-of-zenda
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/95

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 53,723
- Chapters: 22
- Dialogue: 27% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anthony-hope/the-prisoner-of-zenda (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/95 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1193766
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL245401W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/95

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-prisoner-of-zenda