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Author · born 15 August 1858 · died 4 May 1924

Edith Nesbit books: page counts

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

Books
7
with page data
Longest
198
The Story of the Amulet
Shortest
29
Power of Darkness Illustrated

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Railway Children (1999)176Five Children and It146Power of Darkness Illustrated29The Book of Dragons112The Enchanted Castle186The Phoenix and the Carpet174The Story of the Amulet198
The Railway Children…176Five Children and It146Power of Darkness Il…29The Book of Dragons112The Enchanted Castle186The Phoenix and the …174The Story of the Amu…198
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Railway Children199917684–3843 h 06 min
Five Children and It–14672–3062 h 34 min
Power of Darkness Illustrated–2929–4331 min
The Book of Dragons–11252–2201 h 58 min
The Enchanted Castle–186102–4083 h 17 min
The Phoenix and the Carpet–17482–3823 h 04 min
The Story of the Amulet–19894–4283 h 29 min

Reading all 7 takes about 18 h at average speed (1,021 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)).