Quo Vadis

At a glance

Historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Author

Henryk Sienkiewicz1846–1916

First published

1896

Original language

Polish

Genre

Historical fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Epic200,000 words or more

Readers' rating

4.0 out of 5from 73 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 13 h 55 min at 250 words a minute, or 22 h 27 min as an audiobook.

Compared with other books

The books closest in length, and a few well-known ones for scale.

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4. 4Quo VadisHenryk Sienkiewicz208,769
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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

209,055

Chapters

73about 2,864 words each

Dialogue

38%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

18.6 words

Vocabulary

425 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• 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.

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