History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

At a glance

Author

Henry Fielding1707–1754

Genre

Humorous fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Epic200,000 words or more

Readers' rating

3.6 out of 5from 37 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 23 h 6 min at 250 words a minute, or 37 h 16 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

351,289

Chapters

224about 1,568 words each

Dialogue

39%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

30.8 words

Vocabulary

419 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

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

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