# Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens has 351,353 words.

## At a glance

1848 novel by Charles Dickens.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1848
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 351,353
- **Reading time:** 23 h 25 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 37 h 47 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 29 h 17 min | 59 days |
| 250 wpm | 23 h 25 min | 47 days |
| 300 wpm | 19 h 31 min | 40 days |

## Read or listen

Dombey and Son is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/821
- LibriVox audiobook (40 h 22 min): https://librivox.org/dombey-and-son-by-charles-dickens/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 357,197
- Chapters: 56
- Dialogue: 32% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/821 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963659
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dombey_and_Son
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14868861W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/821

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/dombey-and-son