# Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska has 54,190 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Anzia Yezierska](https://musael.com/books/authors/anzia-yezierska.md) (1880–1970)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 54,190
- **Reading time:** 3 h 37 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 50 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 31 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 37 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 1 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41232

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 54,190
- Chapters: 3
- Dialogue: 45% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41232 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21088474W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41232

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/hungry-hearts