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Author · born 1824-12-10 · died 1905-09-18

George MacDonald books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
270
Lilith
Shortest
185
The Princess and the Goblin

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Phantastes (1858)196Lilith (1895)270The Princess and the Goblin (1971)185
Phantastes (1858)196Lilith (1895)270The Princess and the…185
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Phantastes1858196100–3863 h 27 min
Lilith1895270134–5365 h 12 min
The Princess and the Goblin197118587–3483 h 16 min

Reading all 3 takes about 11 h 55 min at average speed (651 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)).