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Virginia Woolf1915Romance

The Voyage Out

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf has 136,709 words, about 9 h 7 min of reading.

words
136,709
Reading time
9 h 7 min
Listening time
14 h 42 min

Very long Longer than 69% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

Novel by Virginia Woolf.

Author
Virginia Woolf1882–1941
First published
1915
Original language
British English
Genre
Romance
Readers
Adult
Length
Very long120,000 to 200,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 9 h 7 min at 250 words a minute, or 14 h 42 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute11 h 24 min23 days
Average250 words a minute9 h 7 min19 days
Fast300 words a minute7 h 36 min16 days

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text
136,898
Chapters
27about 5,070 words each
Dialogue
28%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
15.2 words
Vocabulary
445 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

Questions

How many words is The Voyage Out?

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf has 136,709 words.

How long does it take to read The Voyage Out?

About 9 h 7 min at 250 words a minute, or 14 h 42 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read The Voyage Out at 30 minutes a day?

About 19 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote The Voyage Out?

The Voyage Out was written by Virginia Woolf and first published in 1915.

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