# An Old Man's Love

An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope has 74,598 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Anthony Trollope](https://musael.com/books/authors/anthony-trollope.md) (1815–1882)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 74,598
- **Reading time:** 4 h 58 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 1 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 13 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 58 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 9 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

An Old Man's Love is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25001

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 74,598
- Chapters: 24
- Dialogue: 41% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25001 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL109846W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25001

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/an-old-mans-love