How many words are in The Age of Innocence?
by Edith Wharton · 1920 · Literary Fiction
101,385
Word count
7 hr 6 min
Reading time
406
Est. pages
1920
Published
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is approximately 101,385 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 7 hr 6 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1920, 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 101,385 words, The Age of Innocence runs longer than the typical range, in epic territory.
Source: Word count computed from the Project Gutenberg plain-text edition (eBook #541, public domain) · referenceVerified 2026-06-21
Literary Fiction novels of similar length
| Title | Author | Word count |
|---|---|---|
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 99,121 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 95,418 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 107,945 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 109,571 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 115,666 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 84,828 |