# The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy has 84,589 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Emma Orczy.

- **Author:** [Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy](https://musael.com/books/authors/emmuska-orczy-baroness-orczy.md) (1865–1947)
- **First published:** 1905
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 84,589
- **Reading time:** 5 h 38 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 6 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 3 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 38 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 42 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/baroness-orczy/the-scarlet-pimpernel
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 84,872
- Chapters: 31
- Dialogue: 31% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/baroness-orczy/the-scarlet-pimpernel (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1249536
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1253285W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-scarlet-pimpernel