Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

At a glance

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne.

Author

Jules Verne1828–1905

First published

1869

Original language

French

Genre

Science fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

Readers' rating

3.6 out of 5from 703 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 7 h at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 17 min as an audiobook.

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Compared with other books

The books closest in length, and a few well-known ones for scale.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

104,935

Chapters

46about 2,281 words each

Dialogue

27%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

15.7 words

Vocabulary

449 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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