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How long does it take to read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne takes about 5 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 6 of Voyages Extraordinaires

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About 5 hours 58 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1870. 325 pages, about 89,375 words. Written for children.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 58 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 43 minutes

The page count is the median across 384 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Toy and movable books, Fiction, Specimens, Underwater exploration, Submarine boats, Submarines

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