How many words are in My Ántonia?

by Willa Cather · 1918 · Literary Fiction

81,365
Word count
5 hr 42 min
Reading time
326
Est. pages
1918
Published

My Ántonia by Willa Cather is approximately 81,365 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 5 hr 42 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1918, it sits in the Literary Fiction category.

Typical literary fiction novels run 70,000100,000 words, with a sweet spot around 80,000–90,000. At 81,365 words, My Ántonia sits comfortably within the standard range for the genre.

Source: Word count computed from the Project Gutenberg plain-text edition (eBook #242, public domain) · referenceVerified 2026-06-21

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