# The Iron Heel

The Iron Heel by Jack London has 77,229 words.

## At a glance

1908 novel by Jack London.

- **Author:** [Jack London](https://musael.com/books/authors/jack-london.md) (1876–1916)
- **First published:** 1908
- **Original language:** American English
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 77,229
- **Reading time:** 5 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 26 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 9 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 17 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/the-iron-heel
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1164

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 88,316
- Chapters: 25
- Dialogue: 34% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/the-iron-heel (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1164 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2465752
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74502W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1164

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-iron-heel