# The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne has 161,727 words.

## At a glance

1874 novel by Jules Verne.

- **Author:** [Jules Verne](https://musael.com/books/authors/jules-verne.md) (1828–1905)
- **First published:** 1888
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 161,727
- **Reading time:** 10 h 47 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 23 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 29 min | 27 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 47 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 59 min | 18 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/the-mysterious-island/stephen-w-white
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1268

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 193,403
- Chapters: 62
- Dialogue: 22% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/the-mysterious-island/stephen-w-white (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1268 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471005
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17596501W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1268

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-mysterious-island