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    Word count

    Apologies in advance if this is not the appropriate forum.

    I'm looking for a webpage that lists the word count of well known books. Does anyone know of such a website? I ask because I'm writing a novella and I'd like to compare its length with some others that I have read. I know a novella is between 17,500 and 40,000 words, but it would be nice to reference individual books so I can get a feel for it.

    Thanks.
    "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
    -George Orwell

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    There may be such a place, but it's barely worth the trouble. Figure 300 words to a page for published works. That can also be stated as 1800 characters per page.

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    If the books are up on LitNet or some other site, you could copy and paste them into a word processing program and check the word count that way.

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