# The Three Musketeers

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

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Alexandre Dumas](https://musael.com/books/authors/alexandre-dumas.md), [Auguste Maquet](https://musael.com/books/authors/auguste-maquet.md) (1802–1870)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 229,639
- **Reading time:** 15 h 19 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 24 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 19 h 8 min | 39 days |
| 250 wpm | 15 h 19 min | 31 days |
| 300 wpm | 12 h 45 min | 26 days |

## Read or listen

The Three Musketeers is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alexandre-dumas/the-three-musketeers/william-robson
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257

## 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: 65
- Dialogue: 47% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alexandre-dumas/the-three-musketeers/william-robson (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15196889W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-three-musketeers