# The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett has 80,949 words.

## At a glance

1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

- **Author:** [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://musael.com/books/authors/frances-hodgson-burnett.md) (1849–1924)
- **First published:** 1912
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 80,949
- **Reading time:** 5 h 24 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 45 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 24 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 30 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/the-secret-garden
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/113

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 81,102
- Chapters: 27
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/the-secret-garden (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/113 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472194
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Garden
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL69612W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/113

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

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