# The Jungle

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair has 149,864 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Upton Sinclair.

- **Author:** [Upton Sinclair](https://musael.com/books/authors/upton-sinclair.md) (1878–1968)
- **First published:** 1905
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 149,864
- **Reading time:** 9 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 29 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 59 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 20 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/upton-sinclair/the-jungle
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 150,770
- Chapters: 31
- Dialogue: 13% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 22.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/upton-sinclair/the-jungle (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260205
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL114967W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-jungle