The Romance of Lust

At a glance

Victorian erotic novel.

Author

Anonymous

Original language

English

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Very long120,000 to 200,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 12 h 37 min at 250 words a minute, or 20 h 22 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

189,364

Chapters

4about 47,341 words each

Dialogue

19%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

23.8 words

Vocabulary

420 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.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

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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