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Lewis Carroll1865Fantasy

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll has 26,738 words, about 1 h 47 min of reading.

words
26,738
Reading time
1 h 47 min
Listening time
2 h 53 min

Short Longer than 2% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

1865 children's novel by Lewis Carroll.

Author
Lewis Carroll1832–1898
First published
1865
Original language
British English
Genre
Fantasy
Length
Shortunder 40,000 words
Readers' rating
3.9 out of 5from 1,357 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 1 h 47 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 53 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute2 h 14 min5 days
Average250 words a minute1 h 47 min4 days
Fast300 words a minute1 h 29 min3 days

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text
26,632
Chapters
12about 2,219 words each
Dialogue
39%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
16.4 words
Vocabulary
370 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

Questions

How many words is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll has 26,738 words.

How long does it take to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

About 1 h 47 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 53 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at 30 minutes a day?

About 4 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1865.

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