How many words are in Bleak House?

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is approximately 353,463 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 24 hr 45 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1853, it sits in the Literary Fiction category.

Typical literary fiction novels run 70,000–100,000 words, with a sweet spot around 80,000–90,000. At 353,463 words, Bleak House runs longer than the typical range, in epic territory.