How many words are in Middlemarch?

Middlemarch by George Eliot is approximately 316,389 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 22 hr 9 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1872, 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 316,389 words, Middlemarch runs longer than the typical range, in epic territory.