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Author · born 12 September 1916 · died 9 May 2014

Mary Stewart books: page counts

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

Books
4
with page data
Longest
480
The Crystal Cave
Shortest
303
The Moon-Spinners

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Crystal Cave (1974)480The Moon-Spinners (1975)303Nine Coaches Waiting (1978)342The Ivy Tree (1980)320
The Crystal Cave (19…480The Moon-Spinners (1…303Nine Coaches Waiting…342The Ivy Tree (1980)320
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Crystal Cave1974480384–6628 h 28 min
The Moon-Spinners1975303223–4845 h 20 min
Nine Coaches Waiting1978342272–5956 h 02 min
The Ivy Tree1980320223–6345 h 38 min

Reading all 4 takes about 25 h 28 min at average speed (1,445 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)).