Obviously it depends on the text size. I was thinking maybe 300-500 words per page, which equates to around 60,000-100,00o words for an average novel.
Am I right?
Do you know how long any famous novels are?
2006-10-02 09:12:58 · 11 answers · asked by Jim Lattin 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I am not kidding
I have refered to the print size already
Do you want to give me a proper answer?
2006-10-02 09:17:15 · update #1
Yes, I agree with you. I averaged around 500 words per page, so the whole book could contain around 100,000 words.
Regarding your questions about lenght of famous novels, I am writing you from Mexico and I have just read Spanish texts and only few English novels.
It depends on the character size and editor´s quallity but I can tell some famous novels I have read:
Don Quijote (aprox. 1200 pages x 400 words each one in average in my edition) : about 500,000 words
Las Mil y Una Noches (One Thousand and One Nights my edition with aprox. 4,000 pages and 400 words each one) about 1,600,000 words.
Veinte mil Leguas de Viaje Submarino (Jules Verne - my edition aprox. 420 pages and 500 words each one) about 210,000 words.
Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo my edition aprox. 240 pag. and 400 words each one) about 100,000 words.
El Señor de los Anillos (Lord of the Rings - in my edition 1,400 pages and 400 words each one) about 560,000 words.
Good luck!
2006-10-02 09:21:52 · answer #1 · answered by CHESSLARUS 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A proper estimate would be about 400 words per page. So, a 200 page novel is about 80,000 words. A novella is 50-100 pages and about 20,000-40,000 words. So, yes, you are pretty close to correct.
2006-10-02 09:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff C 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is im[possible to answer not talking print size I am talking word size. The words me, a, my are small words and several can fit into the size that important can take up. Just write and see what you turn out. Short stories can be collated and made into a novel, so if a complete novel is out of the question then write short stories.
2006-10-02 12:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Industry standard is actually 250 words per page. Authors never refer to works in terms of number of pages, always words, but by industry standard, you have just short of 121 pages. Why all the emphasis on pages?? Just write until the story is done. An editor is going to change all that anyway once they get hold of it and start using that infamous red pen. Relax. You cannot write and worry about page numbers. Just write and focus on your story. Pax-C
2016-03-27 02:24:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the average page has about 250 words so a 200 page novel would have, on average, about 50,000 words. however, most novels would have more than this and a good average is actually 80,000 for more classical works.
2006-10-02 09:24:02 · answer #5 · answered by Bryan t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should figure approximately 250 words per page. Therefore a 200 page book has about 50,000 words.
2006-10-02 14:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by Michele H 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Suess would disagree, for hee heee humz post MIGHTILEE.
UNIX manuals are a much different task,(see footnote 1) the first line is 000001, 000000101,/irq* is the querry to the root of the interger 2, see Page 124,pargragh 8, subsection 12.3
A novel cannot be counted by pages, a novel is an Artistic work, to put any such limits and constraints on art is like Patriot Act or some such silly cencorship.
Don Quioxte is 228 pages in one book I have, and it is 569 pages , same aurthor,title, different Binder.
2006-10-02 09:33:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well it also depends on the book cover. Hardbacks are a little bigger than paper back. Da Vinci Code has approxamately 188,000 words
2006-10-02 09:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are usually about 10 words per line.
maybe 45 lines per page (i'm less sure here)
then you can just multiply...
2006-10-02 09:21:16 · answer #9 · answered by Sufi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how large the print is
2006-10-02 09:15:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋