# Love and Freindship

Love and Freindship by Jane Austen has 33,714 words.

## At a glance

Juvenile epistolary novella by Jane Austen, dated 1790.

- **Author:** [Jane Austen](https://musael.com/books/authors/jane-austen.md) (1775–1817)
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 33,714
- **Reading time:** 2 h 15 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 38 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 49 min | 6 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 15 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 52 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1212
- LibriVox audiobook (1 h 10 min): https://librivox.org/love-and-freindship-by-jane-austen/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 33,714
- Chapters: 21
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 24.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1212 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2104534
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Freindship
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15079937W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1212

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/love-and-freindship