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Carlo Collodi1883Children fiction

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi has 41,602 words, about 2 h 46 min of reading.

words
41,602
Reading time
2 h 46 min
Listening time
4 h 28 min

Standard Longer than 10% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

1883 novel by Carlo Collodi.

Author
Carlo Collodi1826–1890
First published
1883
Original language
Italian
Length
Standard40,000 to 80,000 words
Readers' rating
3.8 out of 5from 95 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 2 h 46 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 28 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute3 h 28 min7 days
Average250 words a minute2 h 46 min6 days
Fast300 words a minute2 h 19 min5 days

The Adventures of Pinocchio

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Compared with other books

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  8. 8The Adventures of PinocchioCarlo Collodi41,602
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  10. 10The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum41,108Compare

Counted from the text

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

Words in the text
39,879
Chapters
36about 1,108 words each
Dialogue
43%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
12.1 words
Vocabulary
393 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.

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

Questions

How many words is The Adventures of Pinocchio?

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi has 41,602 words.

How long does it take to read The Adventures of Pinocchio?

About 2 h 46 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 28 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read The Adventures of Pinocchio at 30 minutes a day?

About 6 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio?

The Adventures of Pinocchio was written by Carlo Collodi and first published in 1883.

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