# Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore has 271,840 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [R. D. Blackmore](https://musael.com/books/authors/r-d-blackmore.md) (1825–1900)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 271,840
- **Reading time:** 18 h 7 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 29 h 14 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 22 h 39 min | 46 days |
| 250 wpm | 18 h 7 min | 37 days |
| 300 wpm | 15 h 6 min | 31 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/r-d-blackmore/lorna-doone
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17460

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 275,625
- Chapters: 75
- Dialogue: 24% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 26.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/r-d-blackmore/lorna-doone (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17460 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3400981
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3686133W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17460

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/lorna-doone