Robert Orange

At a glance

1900 novel by John Oliver Hobbes.

Author

John Oliver Hobbes1867–1906

First published

1900

Genre

Romance

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 6 h 37 min at 250 words a minute, or 10 h 40 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

99,272

Chapters

30about 3,309 words each

Dialogue

42%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

13.8 words

Vocabulary

476 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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