# The Romance of Lust

The Romance of Lust by Anonymous has 189,364 words.

## At a glance

Victorian erotic novel.

- **Author:** [Anonymous](https://musael.com/books/authors/anonymous.md)
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 189,364
- **Reading time:** 12 h 37 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 20 h 22 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 15 h 47 min | 32 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 37 min | 26 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 31 min | 22 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254

## 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: 4
- Dialogue: 19% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 23.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7761401
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romance_of_Lust
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15292063W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-romance-of-lust