How long does it take to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is about 26,000 words long, so it takes about 1 hour 41 minutes to read at the average adult reading speed for fiction (260 words a minute). On Scrolls it is 788 short chunks across 12 chapters; at 10 minutes a day you would finish it in 11 days.
How many days will it take to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
It depends on how many minutes a day you read. At 260 words a minute:
| Reading a day | Days to finish |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 21 days |
| 10 minutes | 11 days |
| 15 minutes | 7 days |
| 20 minutes | 6 days |
| 30 minutes | 4 days |
About Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel about a girl who follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a world of talking animals, a Mad Tea-Party and the Queen of Hearts.
It opens:
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
Chapters and reading times
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 12 chapters. The longest takes about 10 minutes; the shortest about 7 minutes.
| # | Chapter | Words | Time | Chunks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down the Rabbit-Hole | 2,142 | 8 min | 51 |
| 2 | The Pool of Tears | 2,093 | 8 min | 66 |
| 3 | A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale | 1,695 | 7 min | 56 |
| 4 | The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill | 2,610 | 10 min | 76 |
| 5 | Advice from a Caterpillar | 2,180 | 8 min | 68 |
| 6 | Pig and Pepper | 2,589 | 10 min | 78 |
| 7 | A Mad Tea-Party | 2,282 | 9 min | 74 |
| 8 | The Queen’s Croquet-Ground | 2,482 | 10 min | 72 |
| 9 | The Mock Turtle’s Story | 2,266 | 9 min | 74 |
| 10 | The Lobster Quadrille | 2,025 | 8 min | 68 |
| 11 | Who Stole the Tarts? | 1,872 | 7 min | 55 |
| 12 | Alice’s Evidence | 2,099 | 8 min | 50 |
How to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Scrolls
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is free to read on Scrolls, the whole book. Scrolls shows it one short chunk per screen: swipe up for the next, the way you move through a feed, and your place syncs across devices.
How we worked this out
We counted the words in the edition you read on Scrolls, then divided by 260 words a minute, the average adult silent reading rate for English fiction in a review of 190 studies: Brysbaert (2019), “How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate”, Journal of Memory and Language 109. Fast readers will take less time and careful readers more; a Scrolls chunk averages about 8 seconds at that speed.
Other books on Scrolls
- How long does it take to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? About 6 hours 41 minutes.
- How long does it take to read A Study in Scarlet? About 2 hours 46 minutes.
- How long does it take to read The Innocence of Father Brown? About 5 hours 3 minutes.
- How long does it take to read The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin? About 3 hours 27 minutes.
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