How long does it take to read Les Misérables?
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo takes about 9 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1862. 543 pages, about 149,325 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 537 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Subjects: Poverty, Fiction, Ex-convicts, History, Historical fiction, French fiction
