# Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs has 85,971 words.

## At a glance

1912 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:** fantasy
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 85,971
- **Reading time:** 5 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 15 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 10 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 44 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 47 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

Tarzan of the Apes is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/tarzan-of-the-apes
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78
- LibriVox audiobook (9 h 21 min): https://librivox.org/tarzan-of-the-apes/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 86,116
- Chapters: 28
- Dialogue: 16% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/tarzan-of-the-apes (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q655296
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_of_the_Apes
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418251W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/tarzan-of-the-apes