# The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather has 151,523 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Willa Cather.

- **Author:** [Willa Cather](https://musael.com/books/authors/willa-cather.md) (1873–1947)
- **First published:** 1915
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 151,523
- **Reading time:** 10 h 6 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 38 min | 26 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 6 min | 21 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 25 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/willa-cather/the-song-of-the-lark
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 151,642
- Chapters: 6
- Dialogue: 31% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/willa-cather/the-song-of-the-lark (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7765253
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Lark_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12831W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-song-of-the-lark