# Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz has 208,769 words.

## At a glance

Historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

- **Author:** [Henryk Sienkiewicz](https://musael.com/books/authors/henryk-sienkiewicz.md) (1846–1916)
- **First published:** 1896
- **Original language:** Polish
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 208,769
- **Reading time:** 13 h 55 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 22 h 27 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 17 h 24 min | 35 days |
| 250 wpm | 13 h 55 min | 28 days |
| 300 wpm | 11 h 36 min | 24 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henryk-sienkiewicz/quo-vadis/jeremiah-curtin
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2853
- LibriVox audiobook (20 h 58 min): https://librivox.org/quo-vadis-by-henryk-sienkiewicz/

## 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: 73
- Dialogue: 38% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henryk-sienkiewicz/quo-vadis/jeremiah-curtin (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2853 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335315
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_Vadis_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL503424W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2853

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/quo-vadis