Book · by Stephen Hawking · first published 1988
How many pages is A Brief History of Time?
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking has a median of 212 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 200 to 246 pages.
How long will A Brief History of Time take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 120 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penguin Random House | – | 272 | OL28592110M |
| 1998 | BCA | – | 241 | OL18720152M |
| 1998 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 212 | OL361722M |
| 1996 | Bantam Books | – | 248 | OL24767384M |
| 1995 | Bantam Books Ltd | Paperback | 240 | OL7819689M |
| 1990 | Bantam | Paperback | 208 | OL7825877M |
| 1989 | ISIS Large Print | – | 248 | OL18797656M |
| 1989 | G.K. Hall | – | 301 | OL2211106M |
| 1989 | Bantam Books | – | 211 | OL27022212M |
| 1988 | Guild | – | 198 | OL18178469M |
| 1988 | Bantam Books | – | 198 | OL2402980M |
| 1988 | Bantam | – | 198 | OL23134457M |
| 1988 | Bantam Books | Hardcover | 208 | OL7816640M |
| – | Not Avail | – | 192 | OL7543843M |
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Questions
- How many pages is A Brief History of Time?
- About 212 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 192 to 301 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Brief History of Time?
- About 4 h 04 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is A Brief History of Time?
- Roughly 58,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
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)).