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Author · born 16 October 1854 · died 30 November 1900

Oscar Wilde books: page counts

6 books by Oscar Wilde with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
6
with page data
Longest
253
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Shortest
46
The Happy Prince and other tales

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Poems246Salomé65The Canterville Ghost72The Happy Prince and other tales46The Importance of Being Earnest104The Picture of Dorian Gray253
Poems246Salomé65The Canterville Ghost72The Happy Prince and…46The Importance of Be…104The Picture of Doria…253
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Poems–246130–3534 h 20 min
Salomé–6530–1291 h 09 min
The Canterville Ghost–7236–1261 h 16 min
The Happy Prince and other tales–4624–11249 min
The Importance of Being Earnest–10448–2241 h 50 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray–253114–5504 h 28 min

Reading all 6 takes about 13 h 51 min at average speed (786 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)).