# King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard has 81,611 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Henry Rider Haggard (1885).

- **Author:** [H. Rider Haggard](https://musael.com/books/authors/h-rider-haggard.md) (1856–1925)
- **First published:** 1885
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 81,611
- **Reading time:** 5 h 26 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 47 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 48 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 26 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 32 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

King Solomon's Mines is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-rider-haggard/king-solomons-mines
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2166
- LibriVox audiobook (9 h 51 min): https://librivox.org/king-solomons-mines-by-haggard/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 82,509
- Chapters: 20
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-rider-haggard/king-solomons-mines (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2166 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137494
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Solomon%27s_Mines
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17448W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2166

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/king-solomons-mines