How many words are in Vanity Fair?

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is approximately 302,384 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 21 hr 11 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1848, 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 302,384 words, Vanity Fair runs longer than the typical range, in epic territory.