# Hard Times

Hard Times by Charles Dickens has 103,360 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Charles Dickens.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1854
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 103,360
- **Reading time:** 6 h 53 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 37 min | 18 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 53 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 45 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/hard-times
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786
- LibriVox audiobook (10 h 55 min): https://librivox.org/hard-times-by-charles-dickens/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 103,780
- Chapters: 37
- Average sentence: 14.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/hard-times (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340493
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193387W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/hard-times