Author · born 19 January 1809 · died 7 October 1849
Edgar Allan Poe books: page counts
7 books by Edgar Allan Poe with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
7
with page data
Longest
198
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Shortest
30
The Tell-Tale Heart
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Fall of the House of Usher | 1965 | 36 | 24–68 | 38 min |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | 1976 | 30 | 24–64 | 32 min |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | 1994 | 38 | 21–81 | 40 min |
| The Black Cat | 1996 | 33 | 24–45 | 35 min |
| The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | 2001 | 198 | 100–422 | 3 h 29 min |
| The Masque of the Red Death | 2004 | 30 | 16–65 | 32 min |
| The Raven | – | 42 | 20–91 | 49 min |
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)).