# The Second Jungle Book

The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling has 63,816 words.

## At a glance

Book by Rudyard Kipling.

- **Author:** [Rudyard Kipling](https://musael.com/books/authors/rudyard-kipling.md) (1865–1936)
- **First published:** 1895
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 63,816
- **Reading time:** 4 h 15 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 52 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 19 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 15 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 33 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1937

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 63,816
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1937 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1101819
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Jungle_Book
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19926W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1937

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

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