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How long does it take to read The Beasts of Tarzan?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs takes about 3 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 3 of Tarzan

Previous: The Return of Tarzan Next: The Son of Tarzan

About 3 hours 51 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1914. 210 pages, about 57,750 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 25 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 51 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 188 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

<p><i>The Beasts of Tarzan</i>, the third book in the Tarzan series, was first published in <i>All-Story Cavalier</i> magazine in 1914. It was later published as a novel in 1916.</p> <p>Tarzan’s old enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, escapes prison and plans his revenge by kidnapping the Tarzan’s son, the heir of Greystoke. He also captures Tarzan and Jane, and takes them all back to Africa, where he strands the Ape-man on an island before continuing on with his dastardly plan. On the island prison Tarzan befriends a troop of apes led by Akut and tames Sheeta the panther before escaping and setting off to rescue his wife and child.</p>

Subjects: Tarzan (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, fantasy, general, Science Fiction, Tarzan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Fantasy fiction

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