How many pages is Treasure Island?

About 352 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 68,690 words, about 4½ hrs of reading at an average pace.

How long is the Treasure Island audiobook?

About 7½ hrs, estimated from the 69,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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Treasure Island

Name: Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

4½ hrsto read

5.9worth it

At your speed≈ 4½ hrs

Pages352

Audiobook≈ 7½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

The complete text runs to 68,690 words, counted word for word. At an average 250 words a minute that is 4½ hrs — a day's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.76 out of 5, from 988 ratings.

Worth-it score 5.9/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.7 (Hardcover's 3.76★ from 988 ratings) + length 0.2 = 5.9. How the score works →

How long does it take to read Treasure Island?

The complete text of Treasure Island runs to 68,690 words — about 352 pages in the edition we list. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Treasure Island at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	6½ hrs
Average	250	4½ hrs
Fast	400	3 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 7½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Treasure Island?: About 4½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The complete text of Treasure Island runs to 68,690 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 6½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
How many pages is Treasure Island?: About 352 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 68,690 words, about 4½ hrs of reading at an average pace.
Is Treasure Island worth reading?: We score it 5.9 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.76 out of 5 from 988 ratings, which counts for 5.7; at about 4½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.2 for being short.
How long is the Treasure Island audiobook?: About 7½ hrs, estimated from the 69,000 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

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels.…

The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders

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