# Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne has 104,935 words.

## At a glance

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne.

- **Author:** [Jules Verne](https://musael.com/books/authors/jules-verne.md) (1828–1905)
- **First published:** 1869
- **Original language:** French
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 104,935
- **Reading time:** 7 h (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 17 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 45 min | 18 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 50 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164
- LibriVox audiobook (16 h 30 min): https://librivox.org/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-by-jules-verne/

## 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: 46
- Dialogue: 27% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183565
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Seas
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24304873W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea