# The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc has 65,649 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Maurice Leblanc](https://musael.com/books/authors/maurice-leblanc.md) (1864–1941)
- **Genre:** thriller
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 65,649
- **Reading time:** 4 h 23 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 4 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 28 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 23 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 39 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-confessions-of-arsene-lupin/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28093

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 66,651
- Dialogue: 50% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-confessions-of-arsene-lupin/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28093 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3231700
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7989911W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28093

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-confessions-of-arsene-lupin