Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

At a glance

Author

Jonathan Swift1667–1745

Genre

Fantasy

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 7 h at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 18 min as an audiobook.

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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

105,091

Chapters

39about 2,695 words each

Dialogue

23%of the words are inside quotation marks

Vocabulary

437 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.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

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

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