# The Lost Continent

The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs has 37,999 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:** 37,999
- **Reading time:** 2 h 32 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 10 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 32 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 7 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

The Lost Continent is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/149

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 37,999
- Chapters: 9
- Dialogue: 11% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/149 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418229W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/149

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-lost-continent