# Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome has 66,909 words.

## At a glance

1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome.

- **Author:** [Jerome K. Jerome](https://musael.com/books/authors/jerome-k-jerome.md) (1859–1927)
- **First published:** 1889
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 66,909
- **Reading time:** 4 h 28 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 12 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 35 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 28 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 43 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

Three Men in a Boat is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jerome-k-jerome/three-men-in-a-boat
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308

## 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: 19
- Dialogue: 10% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jerome-k-jerome/three-men-in-a-boat (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955910
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1793164W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/three-men-in-a-boat