# Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence has 117,630 words.

## At a glance

Novel by D. H. Lawrence.

- **Author:** [D. H. Lawrence](https://musael.com/books/authors/d-h-lawrence.md) (1885–1930)
- **First published:** 1928
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 117,630
- **Reading time:** 7 h 51 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 12 h 39 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 48 min | 20 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 51 min | 16 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 32 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

Lady Chatterley's Lover is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73144
- LibriVox audiobook (12 h 31 min): https://librivox.org/lady-chatterleys-lover-by-d-h-lawrence/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 117,657
- Chapters: 19
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 10.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73144 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q750670
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81180W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73144

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/lady-chatterleys-lover