# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne has 193,575 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Laurence Sterne.

- **Author:** [Laurence Sterne](https://musael.com/books/authors/laurence-sterne.md) (1713–1768)
- **First published:** 1759
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 193,575
- **Reading time:** 12 h 54 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 20 h 49 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 16 h 8 min | 33 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 54 min | 26 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 45 min | 22 days |

## Read or listen

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laurence-sterne/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 188,673
- Chapters: 3
- Dialogue: 5% of the words are inside quotation marks

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laurence-sterne/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1164083
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy%2C_Gentleman
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679230W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman