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At a glance
Novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857).
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert1821–1880
- First published
- 1857
- Original language
- French
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Long80,000 to 120,000 words
- Readers' rating
- 3.5 out of 5from 494 ratings on Hardcover
How long it takes to read
About 7 h 43 min at 250 words a minute, or 12 h 27 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 9 h 39 min | 20 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 7 h 43 min | 16 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 6 h 26 min | 13 days |
Madame Bovary
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- Words in the text
- 115,708
- Chapters
- 35about 3,306 words each
- Dialogue
- 19%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 16.6 words
- Vocabulary
- 476 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
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- gutenberg.orgword count
- openlibrary.orgcover and record
- wikidata.orgdescription and author
- hardcover.appreaders' rating
The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.
Questions
How many words is Madame Bovary?
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert has 115,725 words.
How long does it take to read Madame Bovary?
About 7 h 43 min at 250 words a minute, or 12 h 27 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read Madame Bovary at 30 minutes a day?
About 16 days at an average reading speed.
Who wrote Madame Bovary?
Madame Bovary was written by Gustave Flaubert and first published in 1857.
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