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At a glance
1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863
- First published
- 1848
- Original language
- English
- Genre
- Humorous fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Epic200,000 words or more
- Readers' rating
- 3.6 out of 5from 116 ratings on Hardcover
How long it takes to read
About 20 h 16 min at 250 words a minute, or 32 h 41 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 25 h 19 min | 51 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 20 h 16 min | 41 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 16 h 53 min | 34 days |
Vanity Fair
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- Words in the text
- 302,652
- Chapters
- 67about 4,517 words each
- Dialogue
- 19%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 20.3 words
- Vocabulary
- 457 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below.
- standardebooks.orgword count
- gutenberg.orgword count
- openlibrary.orgcover and record
- wikidata.orgdescription and author
- hardcover.appreaders' rating
The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.
Questions
How many words is Vanity Fair?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray has 303,896 words.
How long does it take to read Vanity Fair?
About 20 h 16 min at 250 words a minute, or 32 h 41 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read Vanity Fair at 30 minutes a day?
About 41 days at an average reading speed.
Who wrote Vanity Fair?
Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray and first published in 1848.
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