# Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy has 149,816 words.

## At a glance

1891 novel by Thomas Hardy.

- **Author:** [Thomas Hardy](https://musael.com/books/authors/thomas-hardy.md) (1840–1928)
- **First published:** 1891
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 149,816
- **Reading time:** 9 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 29 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 59 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 19 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

Tess of the D'Urbervilles is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/110
- LibriVox audiobook (17 h 52 min): https://librivox.org/tess-of-the-durbervilles/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 151,232
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/110 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649409
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_d%27Urbervilles
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL44927W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/110

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/tess-of-the-durbervilles