# Notre-Dame De Paris

Notre-Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo has 183,195 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Victor Hugo.

- **Author:** [Victor Hugo](https://musael.com/books/authors/victor-hugo.md) (1802–1885)
- **First published:** 1831
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 183,195
- **Reading time:** 12 h 13 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 19 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 15 h 16 min | 31 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 13 min | 25 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 11 min | 21 days |

## Read or listen

Notre-Dame De Paris is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/victor-hugo/notre-dame-de-paris/isabel-f-hapgood
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 185,074
- Chapters: 58
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/victor-hugo/notre-dame-de-paris/isabel-f-hapgood (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191380
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15202030W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/notre-dame-de-paris