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At a glance
- Author
- Henry James1843–1916
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Standard40,000 to 80,000 words
How long it takes to read
About 4 h 6 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 37 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 5 h 7 min | 11 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 4 h 6 min | 9 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 3 h 25 min | 7 days |
Embarrassments
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Counted from the text
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- Words in the text
- 61,474
- Dialogue
- 20%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 19.3 words
- Vocabulary
- 432 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
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Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.
Questions
How many words is Embarrassments?
Embarrassments by Henry James has 61,474 words.
How long does it take to read Embarrassments?
About 4 h 6 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 37 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read Embarrassments at 30 minutes a day?
About 9 days at an average reading speed.
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