How long does it take to read The Mysterious Island?
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne takes about 9 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 12 of Voyages Extraordinaires
Previous: Frritt-Flacc Next: The Survivors of the Chancellor
About 9 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1870. 493 pages, about 135,575 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 84 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" doesn't advertise itself as such. Most of the book concerns the efforts of a group of hot-air balloon castaways in the south Pacific ocean attempting to use modern knowledge in order to survive in near-desert-island conditions. "Robinson Crusoe" (Defoe, 1719) started a trend of survival tales that lasts in some respects to this day and "Island" (1874) is Verne's contribution to that body of work. In my estimate, no film so far has done this book justice.
Subjects: Popular Print Disabled Books, French Adventure stories, Fiction, French Science fiction, Science fiction, Islands
