# Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy has 146,860 words.

## At a glance

1895 novel by Thomas Hardy.

- **Author:** [Thomas Hardy](https://musael.com/books/authors/thomas-hardy.md) (1840–1928)
- **First published:** 1895
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 146,860
- **Reading time:** 9 h 47 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 15 h 47 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 14 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 47 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 10 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/jude-the-obscure
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153
- LibriVox audiobook (14 h 53 min): https://librivox.org/jude-the-obscure-by-thomas-hardy/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 145,870
- Chapters: 6
- Dialogue: 40% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/jude-the-obscure (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1248773
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL44986W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/jude-the-obscure