# Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence has 160,961 words.

## At a glance

1913 novel by D. H. Lawrence.

- **Author:** [D. H. Lawrence](https://musael.com/books/authors/d-h-lawrence.md) (1885–1930)
- **First published:** 1913
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 160,961
- **Reading time:** 10 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 25 min | 27 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 44 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 57 min | 18 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence/sons-and-lovers
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/217
- LibriVox audiobook (18 h 48 min): https://librivox.org/sons-and-lovers-by-d-h-lawrence/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 161,016
- Chapters: 16
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 9.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence/sons-and-lovers (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/217 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80771
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_and_Lovers
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81295W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/217

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/sons-and-lovers