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Author · born December 16, 1775 · died July 18, 1817

Jane Austen books: page counts

8 books by Jane Austen with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
8
with page data
Longest
463
Emma
Shortest
88
Love and Freindship

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Pride and Prejudice (1853)354Emma463Lady Susan111Love and Freindship88Mansfield Park450Northanger Abbey256Persuasion268Sense and Sensibility355
Pride and Prejudice …354Emma463Lady Susan111Love and Freindship88Mansfield Park450Northanger Abbey256Persuasion268Sense and Sensibility355
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Pride and Prejudice1853354158–7456 h 14 min
Emma–463217–8978 h 10 min
Lady Susan–11164–2081 h 57 min
Love and Freindship–8847–1361 h 33 min
Mansfield Park–450232–9327 h 56 min
Northanger Abbey–256120–5454 h 31 min
Persuasion–268122–5164 h 43 min
Sense and Sensibility–356174–7606 h 16 min

Reading all 8 takes about 41 h 21 min at average speed (2,346 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)).