# The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by T. Smollett has 161,779 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Tobias Smollett.

- **Author:** [T. Smollett](https://musael.com/books/authors/t-smollett.md) (1721–1771)
- **First published:** 1753
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 161,779
- **Reading time:** 10 h 47 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 24 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 29 min | 27 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 47 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 59 min | 18 days |

## Read or listen

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6761

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 161,779
- Chapters: 67
- Dialogue: 18% of the words are inside quotation marks

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6761 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16385022
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ferdinand%2C_Count_Fathom
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15239431W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6761

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-adventures-of-ferdinand-count-fathom