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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · 67,656 words
2:58:37
at 420 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about seven hours.

Jim Hawkins takes a chart out of a dead lodger's sea-chest at his mother's inn, the Admiral Benbow, and ships aboard the Hispaniola to dig up what it marks — three red crosses, not an X. The cook, Long John Silver, is one-legged, entirely charming, carries a parrot named after a dead pirate, and is quietly running a mutiny; Jim works this out from inside an apple barrel. Two things worth knowing going in: the sea talk is thick and unglossed, and for three chapters in the middle the narration hands off to Dr. Livesey and then hands back. The stretch at the inn, before the ship sails, is the best of it.

34 chapters · begin at the beginning
1The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow5:37begin ▸
·2Black Dog Appears and Disappears5:54sealed
·3The Black Spot5:39sealed
·4The Sea-chest5:30sealed
·5The Last of the Blind Man4:55sealed
·6The Captain's Papers5:15sealed
·7I Go to Bristol4:44sealed
·8At the Sign of the Spy-glass4:47sealed
·9Powder and Arms4:42sealed
·10The Voyage5:02sealed
·11What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel5:38sealed
·12Council of War4:53sealed
·13How I Began My Shore Adventure4:37sealed
·14The First Blow4:57sealed
·15The Man of the Island6:00sealed
·16Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned4:14sealed
·17Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat's Last Trip3:53sealed
·18Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting3:55sealed
·19Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade5:15sealed
·20Silver's Embassy5:06sealed
·21The Attack5:23sealed
·22How I Began My Sea Adventure5:17sealed
·23The Ebb-tide Runs4:03sealed
·24The Cruise of the Coracle5:04sealed
·25I Strike the Jolly Roger4:27sealed
·26Israel Hands7:38sealed
·27“Pieces of Eight”5:32sealed
·28In the Enemy's Camp7:22sealed
·29The Black Spot Again5:46sealed
·30On Parole6:11sealed
·31The Treasure-hunt--Flint's Pointer5:58sealed
·32The Treasure-hunt--The Voice Among the Trees5:11sealed
·33The Fall of a Chieftain5:18sealed
·34And Last4:52sealed

How long does it take to read Treasure Island?

Treasure Island is 67,656 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 3 hr 46 min, or roughly 2 hr 49 min if you read quickly and 5 hr 38 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: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (1883), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence