How many words are in Madame Bovary?

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is approximately 115,666 wordslong. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that's about 8 hr 6 min of reading spread across several sittings. First published in 1856, it sits in the Literary Fiction category.

Typical literary fiction novels run 70,000–100,000 words, with a sweet spot around 80,000–90,000. At 115,666 words, Madame Bovary runs longer than the typical range, in epic territory.