Three Men in a Boat

At a glance

1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome.

Author

Jerome K. Jerome1859–1927

First published

1889

Original language

English

Genre

Humorous fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

Readers' rating

3.8 out of 5from 248 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 28 min at 250 words a minute, or 7 h 12 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

67,320

Chapters

19about 3,543 words each

Dialogue

10%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

19.9 words

Vocabulary

418 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
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• 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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