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Author · born 2 April 1805 · died 4 August 1875

Hans Christian Andersen books: page counts

5 books by Hans Christian Andersen with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
5
with page data
Longest
346
Fairy Tales and Stories
Shortest
32
The Ugly Duckling

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Ugly Duckling (1985)32Fairy Tales and Stories (1986)346The Little Mermaid (1991)48Thumbelina (2005)32Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales286
The Ugly Duckling (1…32Fairy Tales and Stor…346The Little Mermaid (…48Thumbelina (2005)32Hans Andersen's Fair…286
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Ugly Duckling19853216–5434 min
Fairy Tales and Stories1986346188–5756 h 06 min
The Little Mermaid19914824–9651 min
Thumbelina20053216–6034 min
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales–286121–5435 h 02 min

Reading all 5 takes about 13 h 07 min at average speed (744 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)).