# Treasure Island

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson has 68,365 words.

## At a glance

1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

- **Author:** [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://musael.com/books/authors/robert-louis-stevenson.md) (1850–1894)
- **First published:** 1883
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 68,365
- **Reading time:** 4 h 33 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 21 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 42 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 33 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 48 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

Treasure Island is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/treasure-island
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120
- LibriVox audiobook (7 h 30 min): https://librivox.org/treasure-island-by-robert-louis-stevenson/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 68,314
- Chapters: 11
- Dialogue: 29% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/treasure-island (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185118
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24034W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/treasure-island