# Nostromo

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad has 170,864 words.

## At a glance

1904 novel by Joseph Conrad.

- **Author:** [Joseph Conrad](https://musael.com/books/authors/joseph-conrad.md) (1857–1924)
- **First published:** 1904
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 170,864
- **Reading time:** 11 h 23 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 18 h 22 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 14 h 14 min | 29 days |
| 250 wpm | 11 h 23 min | 23 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 30 min | 19 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/joseph-conrad/nostromo
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2021
- LibriVox audiobook (17 h 40 min): https://librivox.org/nostromo-by-joseph-conrad/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 170,288
- Chapters: 29
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/joseph-conrad/nostromo (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2021 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q430248
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL38700W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2021

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/nostromo