# A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs has 67,087 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- **Author:** [Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://musael.com/books/authors/edgar-rice-burroughs.md) (1875–1950)
- **First published:** 1912
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 67,087
- **Reading time:** 4 h 28 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 13 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 35 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 28 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 44 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

A Princess of Mars is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/a-princess-of-mars
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 67,469
- Chapters: 28
- Dialogue: 18% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 28.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/a-princess-of-mars (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q475589
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418187W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-princess-of-mars