Edmond Dantès

At a glance

Author

Edmund Flagg1815–1890

Genre

Historical fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 5 h 38 min at 250 words a minute, or 9 h 5 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

84,451

Chapters

31about 2,724 words each

Dialogue

50%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

16.9 words

Vocabulary

457 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.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

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

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