# Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe has 181,474 words.

## At a glance

1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

- **Author:** [Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://musael.com/books/authors/harriet-beecher-stowe.md) (1811–1896)
- **First published:** 1852
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 181,474
- **Reading time:** 12 h 6 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 19 h 31 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 15 h 7 min | 31 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 6 min | 25 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 5 min | 21 days |

## Read or listen

Uncle Tom's Cabin is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203
- LibriVox audiobook (18 h 7 min): https://librivox.org/uncle-toms-cabin-by-harriet-beecher-stowe/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 182,788
- Chapters: 45
- Dialogue: 45% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2222
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL152161W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/uncle-toms-cabin