# The Land That Time Forgot

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs has 111,487 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:** 111,487
- **Reading time:** 7 h 26 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 59 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 17 min | 19 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 26 min | 15 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 12 min | 13 days |

## Read or listen

The Land That Time Forgot is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-land-that-time-forgot
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/551

## 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: 10
- Dialogue: 11% 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-land-that-time-forgot (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/551 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418232W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/551

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-land-that-time-forgot