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The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · 1894 · 48,150 words
2:15:00
at 395 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about five hours.

Summary coming soon.

7 chapters · begin at the beginning
Mowgli’s Brothers20:37begin ▸
·Kaa’s Hunting25:01sealed
·“Tiger! Tiger!”17:40sealed
·The White Seal19:25sealed
·“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”16:02sealed
·Toomai of the Elephants19:48sealed
·Her Majesty’s Servants16:26sealed

How long does it take to read The Jungle Book?

The Jungle Book is 48,150 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 2 hr 41 min, or roughly 2 hr if you read quickly and 4 hr 1 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence