# History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding has 346,614 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Henry Fielding](https://musael.com/books/authors/henry-fielding.md) (1707–1754)
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 346,614
- **Reading time:** 23 h 6 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 37 h 16 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 28 h 53 min | 58 days |
| 250 wpm | 23 h 6 min | 47 days |
| 300 wpm | 19 h 15 min | 39 days |

## Read or listen

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-fielding/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593
- LibriVox audiobook (36 h 5 min): https://librivox.org/history-of-tom-jones-by-henry-fielding/

## 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: 224
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 30.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-fielding/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL33174792W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling