# Dubliners

Dubliners by James Joyce has 67,582 words.

## At a glance

1914 short story collection by James Joyce.

- **Author:** [James Joyce](https://musael.com/books/authors/james-joyce.md) (1882–1941)
- **First published:** 1914
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 67,582
- **Reading time:** 4 h 30 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 16 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 38 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 30 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 45 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-joyce/dubliners
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814
- LibriVox audiobook (6 h 57 min): https://librivox.org/dubliners-by-james-joyce/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 67,616
- Dialogue: 21% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-joyce/dubliners (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459592
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubliners
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30676194W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/dubliners