# Mosses from an Old Manse

Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne has 157,608 words.

## At a glance

Short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

- **Author:** [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://musael.com/books/authors/nathaniel-hawthorne.md) (1804–1864)
- **First published:** 1835
- **Original language:** Arabic
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 157,608
- **Reading time:** 10 h 30 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 57 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 8 min | 27 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 30 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 45 min | 18 days |

## Read or listen

Mosses from an Old Manse is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512
- LibriVox audiobook (18 h 59 min): https://librivox.org/mosses-from-an-old-manse-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 157,608
- Dialogue: 17% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 23.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595934
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Goodman_Brown
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455350W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/mosses-from-an-old-manse