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