Gulliver's Travels
At your speed≈ 7 hrs
Pages462
Audiobook≈ 11½ hrs
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
The complete text runs to 105,091 words, counted word for word. At an average 250 words a minute that is 7 hrs — a weekend's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.47 out of 5, from 484 ratings.
Worth-it score 4.4/10 — A hard sell for the time. Readers 4.5 (Hardcover's 3.47★ from 484 ratings) − length 0.1 = 4.4. How the score works →
How long does it take to read Gulliver's Travels?
The complete text of Gulliver's Travels runs to 105,091 words — about 462 pages in the edition we list. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 10 hrs |
| Average | 250 | 7 hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 4½ hrs |
Counted word for word from the complete public-domain text on Project Gutenberg, so these times don't depend on any one edition's page count. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 11½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read Gulliver's Travels?
- About 7 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The complete text of Gulliver's Travels runs to 105,091 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 10 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4½ hrs.
- How many pages is Gulliver's Travels?
- About 462 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 105,091 words, about 7 hrs of reading at an average pace.
- Is Gulliver's Travels worth reading?
- We score it 4.4 out of 10 for the time it takes — a hard sell for the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.47 out of 5 from 484 ratings, which counts for 4.5; at about 7 hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.1 for its length.
- How long is the Gulliver's Travels audiobook?
- About 11½ hrs, estimated from the 105,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.
From the publisher
The voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
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