# The Sea-Wolf

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

## At a glance

Novel by Jack London.

- **Author:** [Jack London](https://musael.com/books/authors/jack-london.md) (1876–1916)
- **First published:** 1904
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 106,144
- **Reading time:** 7 h 5 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 25 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 51 min | 18 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 5 min | 15 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 54 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/the-sea-wolf
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1074

## 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: 39
- Dialogue: 24% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/the-sea-wolf (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1074 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1196857
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea-Wolf
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL144824W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1074

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-sea-wolf