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How long does it take to read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

And Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson takes about 5 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 33 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1950. 303 pages, about 83,325 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 16 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 28 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance.

Subjects: Physicians, Fiction, Self-experimentation in medicine, Multiple personality, London (england), fiction, Physicians, fiction

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