# The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson has 25,664 words.

## At a glance

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- **Author:** [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://musael.com/books/authors/robert-louis-stevenson.md) (1850–1894)
- **First published:** 1886
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 25,664
- **Reading time:** 1 h 43 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 46 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 8 min | 5 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 43 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 26 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 25,709
- Dialogue: 29% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217352
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24156W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde