# Forest Days

Forest Days by G. P. R. James has 169,697 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [G. P. R. James](https://musael.com/books/authors/g-p-r-james.md) (1801–1860)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 169,697
- **Reading time:** 11 h 19 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 18 h 15 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 14 h 8 min | 29 days |
| 250 wpm | 11 h 19 min | 23 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 26 min | 19 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49987

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 169,697
- Chapters: 44
- Dialogue: 45% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 24.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49987 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1096748W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49987

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/forest-days