# Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll has 29,778 words.

## At a glance

1871 children's novel by Lewis Carroll.

- **Author:** [Lewis Carroll](https://musael.com/books/authors/lewis-carroll.md) (1832–1898)
- **First published:** 1871
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** fantasy
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 29,778
- **Reading time:** 1 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 12 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 29 min | 5 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 59 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 39 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

Through the Looking-Glass is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lewis-carroll/through-the-looking-glass/john-tenniel
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12
- LibriVox audiobook (3 h 20 min): https://librivox.org/through-the-looking-glass-by-lewis-carroll/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 29,941
- Chapters: 11
- Dialogue: 44% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lewis-carroll/through-the-looking-glass/john-tenniel (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220331
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151406W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/through-the-looking-glass