# The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors by Henry James has 164,421 words.

## At a glance

1903 novel by Henry James.

- **Author:** [Henry James](https://musael.com/books/authors/henry-james.md) (1843–1916)
- **First published:** 1903
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 164,421
- **Reading time:** 10 h 58 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 41 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 42 min | 28 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 58 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 8 min | 19 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-james/the-ambassadors
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/432

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 164,603
- Chapters: 13
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-james/the-ambassadors (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/432 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650571
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL276470W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/432

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-ambassadors