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Friedrich Nietzsche books: page counts

6 books by Friedrich Nietzsche with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
6
with page data
Longest
370
The Gay Science
Shortest
86
Antichrist

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Also sprach Zarathustra (1998)348Antichrist86Beyond Good and Evil180The Birth of Tragedy194The Gay Science370Zur Genealogie der Moral193
Also sprach Zarathus…348Antichrist86Beyond Good and Evil180The Birth of Tragedy194The Gay Science370Zur Genealogie der M…193
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Also sprach Zarathustra1998348180–7466 h 08 min
Antichrist–8642–1821 h 39 min
Beyond Good and Evil–18082–3763 h 28 min
The Birth of Tragedy–19492–2363 h 44 min
The Gay Science–370209–4137 h 08 min
Zur Genealogie der Moral–193128–3673 h 43 min

Reading all 6 takes about 25 h 50 min at average speed (1,371 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)).