Author · born 2 July 1877 · died 9 August 1962
Hermann Hesse books: page counts
5 books by Hermann Hesse with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.
Books
5
with page data
Longest
520
Das Glasperlenspiel
Shortest
139
Siddhartha
Pages per book
Median page count, in order of first publication.
Every book
| Book | First published | Median pages | Range | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Das Glasperlenspiel | – | 520 | 502–765 | 9 h 10 min |
| Demian | – | 171 | 109–237 | 3 h 01 min |
| Narcissus and Goldmund | – | 315 | 312–329 | 5 h 33 min |
| Siddhartha | – | 139 | 71–280 | 2 h 27 min |
| Steppenwolf | – | 244 | 181–309 | 4 h 19 min |
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)).