# The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. Smollett has 191,500 words.

## At a glance

1748 novel by Tobias Smollett.

- **Author:** [T. Smollett](https://musael.com/books/authors/t-smollett.md) (1721–1771)
- **First published:** 1748
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 191,500
- **Reading time:** 12 h 46 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 20 h 35 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 15 h 58 min | 32 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 46 min | 26 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 38 min | 22 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4085

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 191,500
- Chapters: 69
- Dialogue: 19% 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/4085 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7712626
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Roderick_Random
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17862706W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4085

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-adventures-of-roderick-random