# The Sign of the Spider

The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford has 88,655 words.

## At a glance

1896 novel by Bertram Mitford.

- **Author:** [Bertram Mitford](https://musael.com/books/authors/bertram-mitford.md) (1855–1914)
- **First published:** 1896
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 88,655
- **Reading time:** 5 h 55 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 32 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 23 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 55 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 56 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27476

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 88,655
- Chapters: 31
- Dialogue: 27% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27476 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133528380
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24355219W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27476

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-sign-of-the-spider