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Alexandre Dumas & Auguste MaquetHistorical fiction

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet has 229,639 words, about 15 h 19 min of reading.

words
229,639
Reading time
15 h 19 min
Listening time
24 h 42 min

Epic Longer than 89% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

Author
Alexandre Dumas & Auguste Maquet1802–1870
Readers
Adult
Length
Epic200,000 words or more
Readers' rating
3.9 out of 5from 621 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 15 h 19 min at 250 words a minute, or 24 h 42 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute19 h 8 min39 days
Average250 words a minute15 h 19 min31 days
Fast300 words a minute12 h 45 min26 days

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text
230,121
Chapters
65about 3,540 words each
Dialogue
47%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
14.7 words
Vocabulary
406 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.

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

Questions

How many words is The Three Musketeers?

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet has 229,639 words.

How long does it take to read The Three Musketeers?

About 15 h 19 min at 250 words a minute, or 24 h 42 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read The Three Musketeers at 30 minutes a day?

About 31 days at an average reading speed.

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