# Friday, the Thirteenth

Friday, the Thirteenth by Thomas William Lawson has 47,604 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Thomas William Lawson](https://musael.com/books/authors/thomas-william-lawson.md) (1857–1925)
- **Genre:** thriller
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 47,604
- **Reading time:** 3 h 10 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 58 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 10 min | 7 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 39 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12345

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 47,604
- Chapters: 10
- Dialogue: 45% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12345 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9224519W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12345

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/friday-the-thirteenth