# Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut by abbé Prévost has 62,282 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Abbé Prévost.

- **Author:** [abbé Prévost](https://musael.com/books/authors/abbe-prevost.md) (1697–1763)
- **First published:** 1731
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 62,282
- **Reading time:** 4 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 11 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 9 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 28 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/468
- LibriVox audiobook (7 h 8 min): https://librivox.org/manon-lescaut-by-abbe-prevost/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 62,282
- Average sentence: 24.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/468 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1141032
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1132652W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/468

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/manon-lescaut