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Author · born 25 June 1903 · died 21 January 1950

George Orwell books: page counts

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

Books
5
with page data
Longest
360
Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four
Shortest
119
Animal Farm

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Animal Farm (1997)119Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four360Burmese Days287Down and Out in Paris and London213Homage to Catalonia248
Animal Farm (1997)119Animal Farm / Ninete…360Burmese Days287Down and Out in Pari…213Homage to Catalonia248
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Animal Farm199711956–2562 h 06 min
Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four–360174–4646 h 21 min
Burmese Days–287252–4605 h 04 min
Down and Out in Paris and London–213155–3083 h 45 min
Homage to Catalonia–248156–3344 h 47 min

Reading all 5 takes about 22 h 02 min at average speed (1,227 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)).