# This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald has 81,388 words.

## At a glance

1920 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

- **Author:** [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://musael.com/books/authors/f-scott-fitzgerald.md) (1896–1940)
- **First published:** 1920
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 81,388
- **Reading time:** 5 h 26 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 45 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 47 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 26 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 31 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

This Side of Paradise is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/this-side-of-paradise
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/805
- LibriVox audiobook (8 h 56 min): https://librivox.org/this-side-of-paradise-by-f-scott-fitzgerald

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 81,804
- Chapters: 9
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/this-side-of-paradise (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/805 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2581681
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468488W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/805

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/this-side-of-paradise