The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes

At a glance

Author

Anonymous

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Shortunder 40,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 1 h 24 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 15 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

25,622

Dialogue

18%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

20.3 words

Vocabulary

393 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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