# Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet has 241,958 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Alexandre Dumas; sequel to The Three Musketeers.

- **Author:** [Alexandre Dumas](https://musael.com/books/authors/alexandre-dumas.md), [Auguste Maquet](https://musael.com/books/authors/auguste-maquet.md) (1802–1870)
- **First published:** 1845
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 241,958
- **Reading time:** 16 h 8 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 26 h 1 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 20 h 10 min | 41 days |
| 250 wpm | 16 h 8 min | 33 days |
| 300 wpm | 13 h 27 min | 27 days |

## Read or listen

Twenty Years After is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alexandre-dumas/twenty-years-after/estes-and-lauriat
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1259
- LibriVox audiobook (25 h 43 min): https://librivox.org/twenty-years-after-by-alexandre-dumas/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 242,877
- Chapters: 89
- Dialogue: 54% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alexandre-dumas/twenty-years-after/estes-and-lauriat (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1259 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1639633
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Years_After
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30340217W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1259

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/twenty-years-after