# Swann's Way

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust has 195,296 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Marcel Proust.

- **Author:** [Marcel Proust](https://musael.com/books/authors/marcel-proust.md) (1871–1922)
- **First published:** 1913
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 195,296
- **Reading time:** 13 h 1 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 21 h (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 16 h 16 min | 33 days |
| 250 wpm | 13 h 1 min | 27 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 51 min | 22 days |

## Read or listen

Swann's Way is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7178
- LibriVox audiobook (24 h 17 min): https://librivox.org/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 195,296
- Dialogue: 15% of the words are inside quotation marks

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7178 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2700307
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40603375W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7178

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/swanns-way