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The Sea-Wolf

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London has 106,144 words, about 7 h 5 min of reading.

words
106,144
Reading time
7 h 5 min
Listening time
11 h 25 min

Long Longer than 59% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

Novel by Jack London.

Author
Jack London1876–1916
First published
1904
Original language
English
Readers
Adult
Length
Long80,000 to 120,000 words
Readers' rating
3.9 out of 5from 61 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 7 h 5 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 25 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute8 h 51 min18 days
Average250 words a minute7 h 5 min15 days
Fast300 words a minute5 h 54 min12 days

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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
105,923
Chapters
39about 2,716 words each
Dialogue
24%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
14.9 words
Vocabulary
433 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 Sea-Wolf?

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London has 106,144 words.

How long does it take to read The Sea-Wolf?

About 7 h 5 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 25 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read The Sea-Wolf at 30 minutes a day?

About 15 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote The Sea-Wolf?

The Sea-Wolf was written by Jack London and first published in 1904.

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