# The Lost World

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle has 75,964 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Arthur Conan Doyle.

- **Author:** [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://musael.com/books/authors/arthur-conan-doyle.md) (1859–1930)
- **First published:** 1912
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** fantasy
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 75,964
- **Reading time:** 5 h 4 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 10 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 20 min | 13 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 4 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 13 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-lost-world
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/139

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 75,789
- Chapters: 16
- Dialogue: 36% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-lost-world (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/139 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q785255
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_%28Doyle_novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262460W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/139

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

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