# Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs has 45,453 words.

## At a glance

1916 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- **Author:** [Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://musael.com/books/authors/edgar-rice-burroughs.md) (1875–1950)
- **First published:** 1920
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 45,453
- **Reading time:** 3 h 2 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 53 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 47 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 2 min | 7 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 32 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

Thuvia, Maid 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/thuvia-maid-of-mars
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 21 min): https://librivox.org/thuvia-maid-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 47,316
- Chapters: 14
- Dialogue: 23% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-rice-burroughs/thuvia-maid-of-mars (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1927788
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuvia%2C_Maid_of_Mars
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418128W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/thuvia-maid-of-mars