# The Man Who Was Two Men

The Man Who Was Two Men by Ray Cummings has 23,444 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Ray Cummings](https://musael.com/books/authors/ray-cummings.md) (1887–1957)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 23,444
- **Reading time:** 1 h 34 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 31 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 1 h 57 min | 4 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 34 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 18 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

The Man Who Was Two Men is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79828

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 23,444
- Chapters: 12
- Dialogue: 38% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 7.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79828 (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79828

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-man-who-was-two-men