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Author · born 1926 · died 2005

John Fowles books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
617
The Magus
Shortest
288
The Collector

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Magus (1965)617The French Lieutenant's Woman (1977)423The Collector (1983)288
The Magus (1965)617The French Lieutenan…423The Collector (1983)288
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Magus1965617582–71110 h 53 min
The French Lieutenant's Woman1977424366–5187 h 28 min
The Collector1983288255–3705 h 05 min

Reading all 3 takes about 23 h 25 min at average speed (1,328 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)).