# The Voyage Out

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

## At a glance

Novel by Virginia Woolf.

- **Author:** [Virginia Woolf](https://musael.com/books/authors/virginia-woolf.md) (1882–1941)
- **First published:** 1915
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 136,709
- **Reading time:** 9 h 7 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 14 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 11 h 24 min | 23 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 7 min | 19 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 36 min | 16 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/virginia-woolf/the-voyage-out
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/144

## 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: 27
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/virginia-woolf/the-voyage-out (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/144 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599198
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_Out
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17528258W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/144

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-voyage-out