The Hero of the People

At a glance

Author

Alexandre Dumas1802–1870

Genre

Historical fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 5 h 17 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 31 min as an audiobook.

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Compared with other books

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

1. 1War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy587,287Compare
2. 2The Fellowship of the RingJ. R. R. Tolkien177,227Compare
3. 3Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen121,970Compare
4. 4Fathers and SonsIvan Sergeevich Turgenev79,799Compare
5. 5A Hat Full of SkyTerry Pratchett79,291Compare
6. 6The Hero of the PeopleAlexandre Dumas79,147
7. 7The Innocence of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton79,040Compare
8. 8Reaper ManTerry Pratchett78,881Compare
9. 9Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling76,944Compare
10. 10The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald47,094Compare

Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

79,147

Chapters

29about 2,729 words each

Dialogue

51%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

16.6 words

Vocabulary

443 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.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

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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