# Twice-told Tales

Twice-told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne has 147,853 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://musael.com/books/authors/nathaniel-hawthorne.md) (1804–1864)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 147,853
- **Reading time:** 9 h 51 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 15 h 54 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 19 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 51 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 13 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

Twice-told Tales is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13707

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 147,853
- Dialogue: 16% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 23.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13707 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2920815
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455489W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13707

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/twice-told-tales