# Nights With Uncle Remus

Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris has 119,857 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Joel Chandler Harris](https://musael.com/books/authors/joel-chandler-harris.md) (1848–1908)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 119,857
- **Reading time:** 7 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 12 h 53 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 59 min | 20 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 59 min | 16 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 40 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

Nights With Uncle Remus is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26429
- LibriVox audiobook (12 h 40 min): https://librivox.org/nights-with-uncle-remus-by-joel-chandler-harris/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 119,857
- Dialogue: 77% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26429 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2344332W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26429

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/nights-with-uncle-remus