The Reign of Greed

At a glance

Novel by José Rizal.

Author

José Rizal1861–1896

First published

1891

Original language

Philippine Spanish

Genre

Historical fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 7 h 43 min at 250 words a minute, or 12 h 26 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

115,679

Chapters

39about 2,966 words each

Dialogue

35%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

20 words

Vocabulary

464 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

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

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