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How long does it take to read The Three Musketeers?

Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas takes about 10 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of D'Artagnan Romances

Next: Twenty Years After

About 10 hours 11 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1844. 555 pages, about 152,625 words.

21 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 16 hours 58 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 10 hours 11 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 22 minutes

The page count is the median across 1,105 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • abuse
  • war

How these are chosen

Subjects: History, Fiction, Swordsmen, France in fiction, Swordplay, Adventure and adventurers

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