# Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens has 326,054 words.

## At a glance

1864 novel by Charles Dickens.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1864
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 326,054
- **Reading time:** 21 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 35 h 4 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 27 h 10 min | 55 days |
| 250 wpm | 21 h 44 min | 44 days |
| 300 wpm | 18 h 7 min | 37 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/our-mutual-friend
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/883
- LibriVox audiobook (33 h 26 min): https://librivox.org/our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 326,657
- Chapters: 71
- Average sentence: 15.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/our-mutual-friend (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/883 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1557935
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Mutual_Friend
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13162727W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/883

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/our-mutual-friend