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Author · born 15 April 1843 · died 28 February 1916

Henry James books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
634
The Portrait of a Lady
Shortest
66
Daisy Miller

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Daisy Miller (1987)66The Portrait of a Lady (1996)634The Turn of the Screw (2003)160
Daisy Miller (1987)66The Portrait of a La…634The Turn of the Scre…160
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Daisy Miller19876636–1561 h 10 min
The Portrait of a Lady1996634300–99011 h 11 min
The Turn of the Screw200316072–3222 h 49 min

Reading all 3 takes about 15 h 10 min at average speed (860 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)).