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Author · born 13 November 1850 · died 3 December 1894

Robert Louis Stevenson books: page counts

4 books by Robert Louis Stevenson with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
4
with page data
Longest
284
Kidnapped
Shortest
118
A Child's Garden of Verses

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1…132A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)118Treasure Island (1910)256Kidnapped (2002)284
The Strange Case of …132A Child's Garden of …118Treasure Island (191…256Kidnapped (2002)284
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde187513263–2712 h 20 min
A Child's Garden of Verses188511863–2432 h 16 min
Treasure Island1910256118–4324 h 31 min
Kidnapped2002284139–4965 h 01 min

Reading all 4 takes about 14 h 08 min at average speed (790 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)).