# Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert has 115,725 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857).

- **Author:** [Gustave Flaubert](https://musael.com/books/authors/gustave-flaubert.md) (1821–1880)
- **First published:** 1857
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 115,725
- **Reading time:** 7 h 43 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 12 h 27 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 39 min | 20 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 43 min | 16 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 26 min | 13 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gustave-flaubert/madame-bovary/eleanor-marx-aveling
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413
- LibriVox audiobook (12 h 59 min): https://librivox.org/madame-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 115,708
- Chapters: 35
- Dialogue: 19% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gustave-flaubert/madame-bovary/eleanor-marx-aveling (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193417
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL893707W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/madame-bovary