# The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad has 93,164 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Joseph Conrad.

- **Author:** [Joseph Conrad](https://musael.com/books/authors/joseph-conrad.md) (1857–1924)
- **First published:** 1907
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** thriller
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 93,164
- **Reading time:** 6 h 13 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 1 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 46 min | 16 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 13 min | 13 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 11 min | 11 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/joseph-conrad/the-secret-agent
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/974

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 90,575
- Chapters: 13
- Dialogue: 25% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/joseph-conrad/the-secret-agent (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/974 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1247666
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL39108W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/974

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-secret-agent