# The Woman in White

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins has 247,378 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Wilkie Collins.

- **Author:** [Wilkie Collins](https://musael.com/books/authors/wilkie-collins.md) (1824–1889)
- **First published:** 1860
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 247,378
- **Reading time:** 16 h 30 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 26 h 36 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 20 h 37 min | 42 days |
| 250 wpm | 16 h 30 min | 33 days |
| 300 wpm | 13 h 45 min | 28 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/wilkie-collins/the-woman-in-white
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 246,988
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/wilkie-collins/the-woman-in-white (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1212672
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL176045W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-woman-in-white