# Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton has 35,813 words.

## At a glance

Novella by Edith Wharton.

- **Author:** [Edith Wharton](https://musael.com/books/authors/edith-wharton.md) (1862–1937)
- **First published:** 1911
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 35,813
- **Reading time:** 2 h 23 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 51 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 59 min | 6 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 23 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 59 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edith-wharton/ethan-frome
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4517
- LibriVox audiobook (3 h 12 min): https://librivox.org/ethan-frome-by-edith-wharton/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 34,803
- Dialogue: 20% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edith-wharton/ethan-frome (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4517 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5402934
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98501W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4517

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/ethan-frome