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Author · born 30 August 1797 · died 1 February 1851

Mary Shelley books: page counts

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

Books
3
with page data
Longest
462
The Last Man
Shortest
247
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (2006)247Frankenstein270The Last Man462
Frankenstein; or, Th…247Frankenstein270The Last Man462
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus2006247110–4964 h 21 min
Frankenstein–270132–5844 h 46 min
The Last Man–462228–6448 h 09 min

Reading all 3 takes about 17 h 16 min at average speed (980 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)).