# The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux has 82,108 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Gaston Leroux](https://musael.com/books/authors/gaston-leroux.md) (1868–1927)
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 82,108
- **Reading time:** 5 h 28 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 50 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 51 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 28 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 34 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

The Phantom of the Opera is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gaston-leroux/the-phantom-of-the-opera/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/175

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 84,763
- Chapters: 24
- Dialogue: 40% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gaston-leroux/the-phantom-of-the-opera/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/175 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272506
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29954624W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/175

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-phantom-of-the-opera