# Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs by Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch has 42,095 words.

## At a glance

1869 novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

- **Author:** [Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch](https://musael.com/books/authors/leopold-ritter-von-sacher-masoch.md) (1836–1895)
- **First published:** 1870
- **Original language:** German
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 42,095
- **Reading time:** 2 h 48 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 32 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 30 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 48 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 20 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

Venus in Furs is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6852
- LibriVox audiobook (4 h 53 min): https://librivox.org/venus-in-furs-by-leopold-von-sacher-masoch/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 42,095
- Dialogue: 43% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6852 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q677592
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_in_Furs
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721981W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6852

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/venus-in-furs