# Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster has 36,979 words.

## At a glance

American epistolary novel.

- **Author:** [Jean Webster](https://musael.com/books/authors/jean-webster.md) (1876–1916)
- **First published:** 1912
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 36,979
- **Reading time:** 2 h 28 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 59 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 5 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 28 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 3 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

Daddy-Long-Legs is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/157
- LibriVox audiobook (3 h 38 min): https://librivox.org/daddy-long-legs-by-jean-webster/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 36,979
- Average sentence: 14.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/157 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156969
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy-Long-Legs_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4322177W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/157

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/daddy-long-legs