# Villette

Villette by Charlotte Brontë has 194,841 words.

## At a glance

1853 Victorian bildungsroman by Charlotte Brontë.

- **Author:** [Charlotte Brontë](https://musael.com/books/authors/charlotte-bronte.md) (1816–1855)
- **First published:** 1853
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 194,841
- **Reading time:** 12 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 20 h 57 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 16 h 14 min | 33 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 59 min | 26 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 49 min | 22 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-bronte/villette
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9182
- LibriVox audiobook (20 h 26 min): https://librivox.org/villette-by-charlotte-bronte/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 194,724
- Chapters: 42
- Dialogue: 25% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-bronte/villette (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9182 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2449570
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villette_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1095403W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9182

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/villette