D2. Mean sentence length per chapter. 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 | Mean 18.4 words |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | Mean 15.9 words |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | Mean 14.2 words |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | Mean 16.0 words |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | Mean 20.8 words |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | Mean 14.7 words |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | Mean 16.2 words |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | Mean 14.9 words |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | Mean 14.9 words |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | Mean 17.4 words |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | Mean 17.3 words |
| Persuasion | Romance | Mean 23.4 words |
| Emma | Romance | Mean 18.0 words |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | Mean 18.1 words |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | Mean 17.4 words |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | Mean 22.3 words |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | Mean 20.2 words |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | Mean 12.4 words |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | Mean 17.5 words |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | Mean 16.5 words |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | Mean 17.1 words |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | Mean 18.6 words |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | Mean 12.2 words |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | Mean 19.2 words |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | Mean 18.4 words |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | Mean 13.7 words |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | Mean 20.0 words |
| Great Expectations | Literary | Mean 18.3 words |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | Mean 16.0 words |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | Mean 13.9 words |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | Mean 15.8 words |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | Mean 21.3 words |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | Mean 18.0 words |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | Mean 16.1 words |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | Mean 17.4 words |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | Mean 19.9 words |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | Mean 17.6 words |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | Mean 15.1 words |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | Mean 19.6 words |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | Mean 18.8 words |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | Mean 17.9 words |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | Mean 12.1 words |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | Mean 15.2 words |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | Mean 18.3 words |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | Mean 14.3 words |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | Mean 14.8 words |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | Mean 21.6 words |
| North and South | Romance | Mean 15.8 words |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | Mean 17.0 words |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | Mean 14.0 words |
| The Sheik | Romance | Mean 17.7 words |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | Mean 13.2 words |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | Mean 19.5 words |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | Mean 19.5 words |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | Mean 13.5 words |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | Mean 18.9 words |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | Mean 15.8 words |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | Mean 26.2 words |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | Mean 15.6 words |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | Mean 16.1 words |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | Mean 28.1 words |
| Herland | Science fiction | Mean 16.2 words |
| Flatland | Science fiction | Mean 27.6 words |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | Mean 33.5 words |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | Mean 25.9 words |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | Mean 15.9 words |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | Mean 14.4 words |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | Mean 16.8 words |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | Mean 17.3 words |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | Mean 13.6 words |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | Mean 17.8 words |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | Mean 14.7 words |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | Mean 22.1 words |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | Mean 14.2 words |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | Mean 24.5 words |
| Middlemarch | Literary | Mean 18.8 words |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | Mean 19.3 words |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | Mean 17.8 words |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | Mean 18.1 words |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | Mean 17.6 words |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | Mean 13.9 words |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | Mean 17.4 words |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | Mean 18.7 words |
| Silas Marner | Literary | Mean 26.1 words |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | Mean 18.3 words |
| Hamlet | Plays | Mean 8.8 words |
| Macbeth | Plays | Mean 9.0 words |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | Mean 8.4 words |
| Othello | Plays | Mean 7.6 words |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | Mean 9.4 words |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | Mean 7.9 words |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | Mean 14.6 words |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | Mean 7.4 words |
| A Doll's House | Plays | Mean 7.2 words |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | Mean 5.7 words |
| Pygmalion | Plays | Mean 9.0 words |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | Mean 9.2 words |
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