# What Will People Say? A Novel

What Will People Say? A Novel by Rupert Hughes has 149,687 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Rupert Hughes](https://musael.com/books/authors/rupert-hughes.md) (1872–1956)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 149,687
- **Reading time:** 9 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 6 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 28 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 59 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 19 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

What Will People Say? A Novel is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38311

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 149,687
- Chapters: 68
- Dialogue: 29% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38311 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40158240W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38311

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/what-will-people-say-a-novel