# Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray has 303,896 words.

## At a glance

1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.

- **Author:** [William Makepeace Thackeray](https://musael.com/books/authors/william-makepeace-thackeray.md) (1811–1863)
- **First published:** 1848
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 303,896
- **Reading time:** 20 h 16 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 32 h 41 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 25 h 19 min | 51 days |
| 250 wpm | 20 h 16 min | 41 days |
| 300 wpm | 16 h 53 min | 34 days |

## Read or listen

Vanity Fair is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/599
- LibriVox audiobook (32 h 21 min): https://librivox.org/vanity-fair-by-william-makepeace-thackeray/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 302,652
- Chapters: 67
- Dialogue: 19% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/599 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q612836
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16313W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/599

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/vanity-fair