# Carmen

Carmen by Prosper Mérimée has 23,927 words.

## At a glance

1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée.

- **Author:** [Prosper Mérimée](https://musael.com/books/authors/prosper-merimee.md) (1803–1870)
- **First published:** 1847
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** thriller
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 23,927
- **Reading time:** 1 h 36 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 34 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h | 4 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 36 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 20 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2465
- LibriVox audiobook (2 h 17 min): https://librivox.org/carmen-by-prosper-merimee/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 23,927
- Chapters: 4
- Dialogue: 63% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2465 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q674832
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_%28novella%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL694849W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2465

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/carmen