How long does it take to read The Lost World?
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 4 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Professor Challenger
Next: The Poison Belt
About 4 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1900. 238 pages, about 65,450 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 747 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.
Subjects: Adventure stories, Atlantis, Dinosaurs, Discovery and exploration, English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
