How many words are in Great Expectations?

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is approximately 184,478 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 12 hr 55 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1861, 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 184,478 words, Great Expectations runs longer than the typical range, in epic territory.