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At a glance
Book by Edmond de Goncourt.
- Author
- Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt
- First published
- 1886
- Original language
- French
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Standard40,000 to 80,000 words
How long it takes to read
About 5 h at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 4 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 6 h 15 min | 13 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 5 h | 11 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 4 h 10 min | 9 days |
Germinie Lacerteux
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- Words in the text
- 75,091
- Dialogue
- 15%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 19.8 words
- Vocabulary
- 452 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
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Questions
How many words is Germinie Lacerteux?
Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt has 75,091 words.
How long does it take to read Germinie Lacerteux?
About 5 h at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 4 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read Germinie Lacerteux at 30 minutes a day?
About 11 days at an average reading speed.
Who wrote Germinie Lacerteux?
Germinie Lacerteux was written by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt and first published in 1886.
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