# The Gods of Mars

The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs has 82,472 words.

## At a glance

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

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 82,472
- **Reading time:** 5 h 30 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 52 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 52 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 30 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 35 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

The Gods 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/the-gods-of-mars
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 82,886
- Chapters: 22
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-gods-of-mars (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1417942W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-gods-of-mars