The Land That Time Forgot

At a glance

Author

Edgar Rice Burroughs1875–1950

Genre

Science fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 7 h 26 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 59 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

37,452

Chapters

10about 3,745 words each

Dialogue

11%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

20.3 words

Vocabulary

431 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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