# Children of the Tenements

Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. Riis has 86,528 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Jacob A. Riis](https://musael.com/books/authors/jacob-a-riis.md) (1849–1914)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 86,528
- **Reading time:** 5 h 46 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 13 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 46 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 48 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

Children of the Tenements is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21583
- LibriVox audiobook (9 h 42 min): https://librivox.org/children-of-the-tenements-by-jacob-a-riis/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 86,528
- Dialogue: 7% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21583 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1838893W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21583

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/children-of-the-tenements