Love Books Daily

Author · born 2 February 1882 · died 13 January 1941

James Joyce books: page counts

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

Books
4
with page data
Longest
763
Ulysses
Shortest
252
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man252Dubliners254Finnegans Wake593Ulysses763
A Portrait of the Ar…252Dubliners254Finnegans Wake593Ulysses763
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man–252120–5304 h 27 min
Dubliners–254114–5044 h 29 min
Finnegans Wake–593256–72010 h 27 min
Ulysses–763350–1,29613 h 27 min

Reading all 4 takes about 32 h 49 min at average speed (1,862 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)).