# The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame has 58,768 words.

## At a glance

English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated.

- **Author:** [Kenneth Grahame](https://musael.com/books/authors/kenneth-grahame.md) (1859–1932)
- **First published:** 1908
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** fantasy
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 58,768
- **Reading time:** 3 h 55 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 19 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 54 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 55 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 16 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Wind in the Willows is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/kenneth-grahame/the-wind-in-the-willows
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/289

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 58,850
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/kenneth-grahame/the-wind-in-the-willows (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/289 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936276
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28570037W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/289

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-wind-in-the-willows