# A Pair of Blue Eyes

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy has 131,237 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Thomas Hardy](https://musael.com/books/authors/thomas-hardy.md) (1840–1928)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 131,237
- **Reading time:** 8 h 45 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 14 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 56 min | 22 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 45 min | 18 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 17 min | 15 days |

## Read or listen

A Pair of Blue Eyes is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/a-pair-of-blue-eyes
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/224

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 131,271
- Chapters: 40
- Dialogue: 42% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/a-pair-of-blue-eyes (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/224 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2931240
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL44987W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/224

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-pair-of-blue-eyes