The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

At a glance

Author

Daniel Defoe1660–1731

Genre

Adventure

Readers

Adult

Length

Very long120,000 to 200,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 8 h 4 min at 250 words a minute, or 13 h 1 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

121,281

Chapters

20about 6,064 words each

Vocabulary

363 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.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record

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.

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