# The Wandering Jew

The Wandering Jew by Eugène Sue has 522,306 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Eugène Sue.

- **Author:** [Eugène Sue](https://musael.com/books/authors/eugene-sue.md) (1804–1857)
- **First published:** 1844
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 522,306
- **Reading time:** 34 h 49 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 56 h 10 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 43 h 32 min | 88 days |
| 250 wpm | 34 h 49 min | 70 days |
| 300 wpm | 29 h 1 min | 59 days |

## Read or listen

The Wandering Jew is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3350

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 522,306
- Chapters: 195
- Dialogue: 51% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3350 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2701079
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Jew_%28Sue_novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8524982W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3350

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-wandering-jew