D1. Chapter length in words, as a chart. Count
Pace. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.
| Book | Genre | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | Thriller and adventure | 34 chapters, median 1,998 words |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | 10 chapters, median 4,375 words |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | 22 chapters, median 2,486 words |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | 37 chapters, median 1,771 words |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | 20 chapters, median 4,000 words |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | 15 chapters, median 3,868 words |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | 14 chapters, median 3,344 words |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | 12 chapters, median 9,194 words |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | 56 chapters, median 3,376 words |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | 52 chapters, median 4,190 words |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | 61 chapters, median 1,841 words |
| Persuasion | Romance | 24 chapters, median 3,322 words |
| Emma | Romance | 55 chapters, median 2,981 words |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | 38 chapters, median 4,404 words |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | 27 chapters, median 5,873 words |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | 28 chapters, median 2,614 words |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | 10 chapters, median 2,409 words |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | 20 chapters, median 3,923 words |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | 34 chapters, median 3,375 words |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | 24 chapters, median 1,671 words |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | 16 chapters, median 2,111 words |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | 27 chapters, median 1,963 words |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | 28 chapters, median 1,771 words |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | 12 chapters, median 2,176 words |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | 24 chapters, median 1,503 words |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | 27 chapters, median 2,713 words |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | 12 chapters, median 4,824 words |
| Great Expectations | Literary | 59 chapters, median 2,972 words |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | 5 chapters, median 6,204 words |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | 9 chapters, median 5,242 words |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | 3 chapters, median 12,341 words |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | 30 chapters, median 2,748 words |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | 117 chapters, median 3,448 words |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | 67 chapters, median 3,061 words |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | 28 chapters, median 4,000 words |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | 31 chapters, median 2,699 words |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | 16 chapters, median 5,453 words |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | 31 chapters, median 3,731 words |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | 41 chapters, median 3,867 words |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | 5 chapters, median 3,092 words |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | 26 chapters, median 3,067 words |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | 12 chapters, median 3,420 words |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | 39 chapters, median 2,557 words |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | 17 chapters, median 3,541 words |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | 17 chapters, median 3,078 words |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | 13 chapters, median 7,059 words |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | 50 chapters, median 2,345 words |
| North and South | Romance | 52 chapters, median 3,457 words |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | 63 chapters, median 2,011 words |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | 22 chapters, median 3,552 words |
| The Sheik | Romance | 10 chapters, median 9,104 words |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | 13 chapters, median 3,080 words |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | 16 chapters, median 1,609 words |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | 5 chapters, median 7,165 words |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | 26 chapters, median 3,072 words |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | 8 chapters, median 2,865 words |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | 3 chapters, median 3,042 words |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | 4 chapters, median 3,062 words |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | 22 chapters, median 1,702 words |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | 44 chapters, median 1,993 words |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | 28 chapters, median 2,257 words |
| Herland | Science fiction | 12 chapters, median 4,546 words |
| Flatland | Science fiction | 25 chapters, median 1,128 words |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | 29 chapters, median 2,806 words |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | 29 chapters, median 5,694 words |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | 10 chapters, median 2,997 words |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | 22 chapters, median 3,068 words |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | 17 chapters, median 3,082 words |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | 11 chapters, median 4,447 words |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | 14 chapters, median 4,200 words |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | 32 chapters, median 1,470 words |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | 17 chapters, median 2,885 words |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | 56 chapters, median 3,056 words |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | 38 chapters, median 2,527 words |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | 49 chapters, median 1,214 words |
| Middlemarch | Literary | 87 chapters, median 3,627 words |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | 59 chapters, median 2,475 words |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | 21 chapters, median 3,091 words |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | 38 chapters, median 1,533 words |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | 239 chapters, median 1,431 words |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | 41 chapters, median 4,976 words |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | 35 chapters, median 3,246 words |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | 34 chapters, median 2,907 words |
| Silas Marner | Literary | 21 chapters, median 3,263 words |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | 44 chapters, median 2,608 words |
| Hamlet | Plays | 20 chapters, median 1,532 words |
| Macbeth | Plays | 27 chapters, median 530 words |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | 25 chapters, median 935 words |
| Othello | Plays | 13 chapters, median 2,107 words |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | 9 chapters, median 1,826 words |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | 18 chapters, median 1,012 words |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | 5 chapters, median 3,004 words |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | 3 chapters, median 7,304 words |
| A Doll's House | Plays | 3 chapters, median 8,211 words |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | 4 chapters, median 7,773 words |
| Pygmalion | Plays | 5 chapters, median 4,744 words |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | 13 chapters, median 1,724 words |
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