# Men Without Women

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway has 41,052 words.

## At a glance

Short story collection by Ernest Hemingway.

- **Author:** [Ernest Hemingway](https://musael.com/books/authors/ernest-hemingway.md) (1899–1961)
- **First published:** 1927
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 41,052
- **Reading time:** 2 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 25 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 25 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 44 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 17 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

Men Without Women is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69683
- LibriVox audiobook (4 h 26 min): https://librivox.org/men-without-women-by-ernest-hemingway/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 41,052
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 9.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69683 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4179831
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Without_Women_%28Hemingway_short_story_collection%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL63000W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69683

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/men-without-women