# Kidnapped

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson has 80,628 words.

## At a glance

1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- **Author:** [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://musael.com/books/authors/robert-louis-stevenson.md) (1850–1894)
- **First published:** 1886
- **Original language:** Scots
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 80,628
- **Reading time:** 5 h 23 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 40 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 43 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 23 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 29 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/kidnapped
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/421
- LibriVox audiobook (8 h 17 min): https://librivox.org/kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 81,973
- Chapters: 30
- Dialogue: 31% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/kidnapped (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/421 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2349094
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapped_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24166W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/421

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/kidnapped