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Author · born 7 November 1913 · died 4 January 1960

Albert Camus books: page counts

7 books by Albert Camus with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
7
with page data
Longest
306
The Rebel
Shortest
127
L’étranger

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

La Peste (1947)278The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1959)169La Chute (1963)147The Rebel (1969)306A Happy Death (1971)192L’étranger (1998)127The myth of Sisyphus (2000)169
La Peste (1947)278The Myth of Sisyphus…169La Chute (1963)147The Rebel (1969)306A Happy Death (1971)192L’étranger (1998)127The myth of Sisyphus…169
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
La Peste1947278150–4004 h 54 min
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays1959169151–3523 h 15 min
La Chute196314793–1942 h 35 min
The Rebel1969306269–3065 h 54 min
A Happy Death1971192136–2313 h 23 min
L’étranger199812758–2082 h 14 min
The myth of Sisyphus2000169160–1922 h 59 min

Reading all 7 takes about 25 h 15 min at average speed (1,388 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).