# Beasts and Super-Beasts

Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki has 61,810 words.

## At a glance

Book by Saki.

- **Author:** [Saki](https://musael.com/books/authors/saki.md) (1870–1916)
- **First published:** 1914
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 61,810
- **Reading time:** 4 h 7 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 39 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 9 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 7 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 26 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

Beasts and Super-Beasts is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/269
- LibriVox audiobook (6 h 49 min): https://librivox.org/beasts-and-super-beasts-by-saki/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 61,810
- Dialogue: 52% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/269 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4876883
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29115502W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/269

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/beasts-and-super-beasts