Women's Barracks

At a glance

Author

Tereska Torrès1920–2012

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 17 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 54 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

64,189

Chapters

42about 1,528 words each

Dialogue

6%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

15.3 words

Vocabulary

420 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.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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