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Author · born 2 June 1840 · died 11 January 1928

Thomas Hardy books: page counts

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

Books
6
with page data
Longest
484
Jude the Obscure
Shortest
221
Under the Greenwood Tree

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)221Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1920)464The Return of the Native (1922)473Far from the Madding Crowd452Jude the Obscure484The Mayor of Casterbridge384
Under the Greenwood …221Tess of the D'Urberv…464The Return of the Na…473Far from the Madding…452Jude the Obscure484The Mayor of Casterb…384
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Under the Greenwood Tree1872221106–4323 h 54 min
Tess of the D'Urbervilles1920464244–6528 h 11 min
The Return of the Native1922473248–5728 h 20 min
Far from the Madding Crowd–452236–5987 h 58 min
Jude the Obscure–484244–7088 h 32 min
The Mayor of Casterbridge–384192–7766 h 47 min

Reading all 6 takes about 43 h 41 min at average speed (2,478 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)).