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Author · born 4 July 1804 · died 19 May 1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne books: page counts

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

Books
4
with page data
Longest
332
The House of the Seven Gables
Shortest
208
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Scarlet Letter (1871)288A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys208The Blithedale Romance232The House of the Seven Gables332
The Scarlet Letter (…288A Wonder Book for Gi…208The Blithedale Roman…232The House of the Sev…332
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Scarlet Letter1871288128–6005 h 05 min
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys–20896–4403 h 41 min
The Blithedale Romance–232106–5104 h 05 min
The House of the Seven Gables–332156–6525 h 51 min

Reading all 4 takes about 18 h 42 min at average speed (1,060 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)).