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How long does it take to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo takes about 8 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 7 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1831. 443 pages, about 121,825 words.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 32 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 7 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 5 minutes

The page count is the median across 282 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • sexual content

How these are chosen

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, fiction, Sko nlitteratur, Fiction, French fiction, Stuttering, History

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