The Journal of George Fox
George Fox's Journal in a modernized, illuminated edition — the foundational Quaker text of his spiritual seeking and encounters with Christ as living teacher.
- 1,200+ pages
- Complete & unabridged
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This edition
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- Time to read29 hours
- Length414,385 words
- Files1 EPUB, DRM-free
How we get 29 hours
This figure is here so you can compare one book against another. Every title on the site is timed from its own word count at the same reading speed — nothing is adjusted book by book — so if this edition says 29 hours and another says half that, the second one really is about half the reading. It is a measure of size, in the way a page count is. Your own pace is your own: at the speeds typical adult readers actually manage, this edition runs anywhere from 23 hours to 39.5 hours.
What is in this edition
| Modernized text | 406,136 words |
|---|---|
| Introduction, chapter summaries and notes written for this edition | 8,249 words |
| Total | 414,385 words |
The introduction, the chapter summaries and the notes on people, places and unfamiliar terms were written for this edition. They are 8,249 of the 414,385 words above, and they are part of what you are buying.
Counted from the text of the EPUB you receive. Navigation, the title page, the table of contents and the licence page are excluded — they are packaging, not reading.
The reading rate
238 words per minute, for adult silent reading of non-fiction, applied unchanged to every title on the site. We did not pick the number; it is the pooled result of a published meta-analysis. Nothing is adjusted book by book — that consistency is what makes two of these figures worth comparing.
Brysbaert, M. (2019). How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104047. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104047
190 studies, 18,573 participants.
The same paper puts most adult readers between 175 and
300 words per minute, and those two speeds give the
23 hours and 39.5 hours above.
Because time is words divided by speed, an even range of speeds produces an
uneven range of times, so 29 hours sits nearer the fast end of that
range than the middle of it.
If it were a paperback
Roughly 1184–1658 pages.
Words per printed page is a typesetting convention, not a measurement — it moves with trim size, type size and leading. The range above assumes 250–350 words a page. Friends Illuminated publishes no print edition of this book; the figure is here only because pages are a more familiar size than words.
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About This Edition
The Journal of George Fox stands as the foundational document of the Quaker movement — an autobiography of extraordinary spiritual range, written by the man who in 1647 first heard an inner voice declare that “there is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition.” What follows across more than twelve hundred pages is Fox’s own account of thirty years of incessant travel, preaching, imprisonment, and correspondence: from his early wanderings across the English Midlands in search of a teacher who could satisfy his soul, through the explosive growth of Friends, and into the last years of his life organizing the movement he had called into being. This edition restores the full text while making it accessible to contemporary readers, rendering archaic constructions in clear modern English without sacrificing the directness and force of Fox’s voice.
The Journal was not published in Fox’s own lifetime. After his death in 1691, it was edited and prepared for press by Thomas Ellwood, Fox’s friend and fellow Friend, who had himself served John Milton as secretary and amanuensis. Ellwood’s careful work preserved the shape of Fox’s narrative while smoothing some of its rougher edges — a tension this edition acknowledges and works with, rather than against. Readers of the Journal encounter a man of remarkable physical courage, astonishing spiritual perception, and occasional frustrating opacity: Fox records what Christ showed him, but rarely pauses to explain it. This edition includes brief editorial notes at key passages to help readers locate themselves in the theological landscape Fox traversed.
