# Germinie Lacerteux

Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt has 75,091 words.

## At a glance

Book by Edmond de Goncourt.

- **Author:** [Edmond de Goncourt](https://musael.com/books/authors/edmond-de-goncourt.md), [Jules de Goncourt](https://musael.com/books/authors/jules-de-goncourt.md)
- **First published:** 1886
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 75,091
- **Reading time:** 5 h (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 4 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 15 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 10 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27711

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 75,091
- Dialogue: 15% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27711 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3761166
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinie_Lacerteux
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74886W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27711

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/germinie-lacerteux