# The Social Cancer

The Social Cancer by José Rizal has 176,040 words.

## At a glance

Novel by José Rizal.

- **Author:** [José Rizal](https://musael.com/books/authors/jose-rizal.md) (1861–1896)
- **First published:** 1887
- **Original language:** Philippine Spanish
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 176,040
- **Reading time:** 11 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 18 h 56 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 14 h 40 min | 30 days |
| 250 wpm | 11 h 44 min | 24 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 47 min | 20 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6737

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 176,040
- Chapters: 63
- Dialogue: 41% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6737 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568299
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noli_Me_T%C3%A1ngere_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL38947048W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6737

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-social-cancer