# The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting and Hugh Walpole has 25,140 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Hugh Lofting](https://musael.com/books/authors/hugh-lofting.md), [Hugh Walpole](https://musael.com/books/authors/hugh-walpole.md)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 25,140
- **Reading time:** 1 h 41 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 6 min | 5 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 41 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 24 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

The Story of Doctor Dolittle is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hugh-lofting/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 27,063
- Dialogue: 40% 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/hugh-lofting/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1449046W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle