# Peter Pan

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie has 47,336 words.

## At a glance

Play and novel by James Matthew Barrie.

- **Author:** [J. M. Barrie](https://musael.com/books/authors/j-m-barrie.md) (1860–1937)
- **First published:** 1911
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 47,336
- **Reading time:** 3 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 57 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 9 min | 7 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 38 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 4 min): https://librivox.org/peter-pan-by-j-m-barrie

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 47,336
- Chapters: 17
- Dialogue: 21% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3435337
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_%28play_and_novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL462007W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/peter-pan