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Author · born 18 May 1872 · died 2 Februrary 1970

Bertrand Russell books: page counts

3 books by Bertrand Russell with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
895
A History of Western Philosophy
Shortest
112
The Problems of Philosophy

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

A History of Western Philosophy895The Problems of Philosophy112Why I am not a Christian240
A History of Western…895The Problems of Phil…112Why I am not a Chris…240
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
A History of Western Philosophy–895778–91617 h 14 min
The Problems of Philosophy–11252–2442 h 09 min
Why I am not a Christian–240225–2664 h 38 min

Reading all 3 takes about 24 h 01 min at average speed (1,248 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)).