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How long does it take to read The Gods of Mars?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 3 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1918. 200 pages, about 55,000 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 7 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 18 minutes

The page count is the median across 315 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars--an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.

Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science fiction, Science fiction, American

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