Book · by Charles Dickens · first published 1986
How many pages is A Christmas Carol?
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has a median of 114 pages across 521 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 90 to 144 pages.
Median pages
114
521 editions counted
Range
52–250
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
31k
at 275 words per page
How long will A Christmas Carol take you?
Reading time
2 h 01 min
At 30 min a day
5 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 118 | 19 | 2 h 05 min |
| Paperback | 107 | 41 | 1 h 53 min |
| Mass market | 144 | 2 | 2 h 32 min |
Editions counted
The 521 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 55 more editions were 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 3,196 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 78 | OL55644398M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 84 | OL55543695M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 138 | OL55545827M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 100 | OL55545456M |
| 2014 | Simon & Schuster, Limited | – | 128 | OL33514896M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 92 | OL55107397M |
| 2014 | Penguin Books | – | 129 | OL28373114M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 110 | OL56337365M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 118 | OL55285567M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 90 | OL55966536M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 80 | OL55704788M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 116 | OL56001291M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 94 | OL56222892M |
| 2013 | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | – | 144 | OL34473391M |
| 2013 | Indy N Publishing | paperback | 62 | OL45311815M |
| 2013 | Saddleback Educational Publishing, Incorporated | – | 80 | OL29676958M |
| 2013 | University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations | – | 186 | OL29144082M |
| 2013 | Oxford University Press | – | 88 | OL28496708M |
| 2013 | Oldcastle Books, Limited | – | 198 | OL58759194M |
| 2013 | SoHo Books | – | 108 | OL40233362M |
| 2013 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 132 | OL55305121M |
| 2013 | Start Publishing LLC | – | 75 | OL33999455M |
| 2012 | Textbook classics | – | 108 | OL32085603M |
| 2012 | Bollinger, Max | – | 92 | OL34480893M |
| 2012 | Penguin Random House | – | 160 | OL28485770M |
| 2012 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 92 | OL56340826M |
| 2011 | Concord Theatricals | – | 53 | OL51024451M |
| 2011 | Magic Wagon | – | 112 | OL24815393M |
| 2010 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 80 | OL29586158M |
| 2010 | – | – | 100 | OL25375576M |
| 2010 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 112 | OL34444655M |
| 2010 | BN Publishing | – | 108 | OL44929037M |
| 2010 | ACTA Publications | – | 142 | OL25375130M |
| 2010 | Saddleback Educational Publishing, Incorporated | – | 88 | OL29601035M |
| 2009 | Kalyani Navyug Media | – | 68 | OL24469990M |
| 2009 | Levenger Press | – | 199 | OL24043942M |
| 2009 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 74 | OL54547546M |
| 2009 | Compass Publishing | – | 76 | OL50505600M |
| 2009 | Dramatists Play Service | – | 59 | OL24816775M |
| 2009 | Standard Pub. | – | 127 | OL24433906M |
| 2008 | Aurora Metro Publications Limited | – | 90 | OL28450219M |
| 2008 | Fall River Press | – | 129 | OL36691089M |
| 2007 | Echo Library | Hardcover | 164 | OL8411319M |
| 2007 | Mass Market Paperback | 160 | OL11757910M | |
| 2007 | Prestwick House, Inc. | Paperback | 136 | OL12276684M |
| 2007 | Barbour Publishing | Paperback | 96 | OL12494716M |
| 2007 | Wilder Publications | Paperback | 68 | OL12558561M |
| 2007 | Dodo Press | Paperback | 104 | OL11678021M |
| 2006 | ReadHowYouWant.com | Paperback | 60 | OL8501742M |
| 2006 | Norilana Books | – | 116 | OL34420857M |
| 2006 | ReadHowYouWant.com | Paperback | 88 | OL8501846M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 120 | OL10416605M |
| 2006 | ICON Reference | Paperback | 116 | OL7652948M |
| 2006 | DK CHILDREN | Paperback | 64 | OL7995218M |
| 2006 | ICON Reference | Paperback | 108 | OL7652989M |
| 2006 | Echo Library | Paperback | 164 | OL8964935M |
| 2006 | Walker Books, Limited | – | 160 | OL28434394M |
| 2006 | Icon Reference | Paperback | 180 | OL7652674M |
| 2006 | Norilana Books | – | 116 | OL34422826M |
| 2006 | Dover Publications | – | 80 | OL28434936M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 148 | OL10416697M |
| 2006 | ICON Reference | Paperback | 112 | OL7652921M |
| 2005 | Oxford University Press | Paperback | 88 | OL9661961M |
| 2005 | ICON Classics | Paperback | 132 | OL7652877M |
| 2005 | ICON Classics | Paperback | 120 | OL7652849M |
| 2005 | ICON Classics | Paperback | 120 | OL7652904M |
| 2005 | Tor Classics | Mass Market Paperback | 128 | OL9525459M |
| 2005 | Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Press | – | 87 | OL26334758M |
| 2005 | Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. | Paperback | 80 | OL12131132M |
| 2004 | Chrysalis Books | Paperback | 144 | OL8949536M |
| 2004 | Theatre Communications Group | Paperback | 74 | OL8908751M |
| 2004 | Quiet River Press | – | 141 | OL23029713M |
| 2004 | Aladdin | Paperback | 131 | OL7730960M |
| 2003 | Broadview Press | – | 239 | OL23156266M |
| 2003 | Pocket Books | – | 148 | OL3321366M |
| 2003 | Barnes & Noble | Hardcover | 144 | OL8013983M |
| 2003 | Echo Library | Paperback | 116 | OL11914601M |
| 2003 | Creative Company, The | – | 152 | OL34411350M |
| 2003 | – | – | 198 | OL58662669M |
| 2003 | Pavilion Books | – | 190 | OL33384658M |
| 2002 | Green Integer | Paperback | 166 | OL8802479M |
| 2002 | HarperFestival | – | 149 | OL3959056M |
| 2002 | Dover Publications | – | 127 | OL3954493M |
| 2002 | Running Press Book Publishers | – | 55 | OL3572110M |
| 2001 | DK CHILDREN | Paperback | 64 | OL8155906M |
| 2001 | Applause Theatre & Cinema Books | – | 72 | OL3951307M |
| 2001 | Puffin Books | – | 126 | OL3580631M |
| 2000 | DK | – | 64 | OL23161383M |
| 2000 | Dorling Kingersley Pub. | – | 64 | OL58667M |
| 2000 | Viking Juvenile | Paperback | 112 | OL7643645M |
| 2000 | Running Press | – | 173 | OL23161150M |
| 2000 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 80 | OL7385043M |
| 2000 | Trident Press International | Leather bound | 241 | OL8788452M |
| 2000 | Scholastic Paperbacks | – | 144 | OL7510092M |
| 2000 | Trident Pr Intl | Hardcover | 241 | OL8788456M |
| 2000 | Courage Books/Running Press | – | 55 | OL6801135M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books | – | 138 | OL3580290M |
| 2000 | North-South Books | – | 67 | OL6784691M |
| 2000 | Viking Juvenile | Hardcover | 107 | OL7643644M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 76 | OL9864003M |
| 1999 | Delta Systems | Paperback | 64 | OL10244651M |
| 1999 | Heinemann Educational | – | 80 | OL22561349M |
| 1999 | Bethany House Publishers | Paperback | 104 | OL8638433M |
| 1998 | NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company | Paperback | 96 | OL8978495M |
| 1997 | Focus on the Family Pub. | – | 104 | OL668498M |
| 1997 | Stewart, Tabori & Chang | – | 158 | OL665979M |
| 1997 | DK Pub. | – | 64 | OL670538M |
| 1997 | Barbour Pub. | – | 96 | OL26331055M |
| 1997 | Cideb Editrice | – | 201 | OL35656475M |
| 1996 | Ladybird Books | Hardcover | 52 | OL7862293M |
| 1996 | MCE Pub. | – | 176 | OL966387M |
| 1996 | Dover Publications | Paperback | 96 | OL7637227M |
| 1996 | W. Morrow | – | 56 | OL799209M |
| 1996 | Andrews McMeel Publishing | Hardcover | 128 | OL8201832M |
| 1995 | Margaret K. McElderry Books | Hardcover | 144 | OL1121575M |
| 1995 | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | – | 139 | OL6803592M |
| 1995 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | Hardcover | 72 | OL8196961M |
| 1995 | Baronet Books | Hardcover | 239 | OL7718494M |
| 1995 | Pavilion | – | 144 | OL16829787M |
| 1995 | Puffin | – | 144 | OL7354034M |
| 1995 | Templar | – | 127 | OL26336507M |
| 1995 | S. French | – | 101 | OL777201M |
| 1995 | Trans-Atlantic Publications | Paperback | 221 | OL9531293M |
| 1994 | American Guidance Service | Paperback | 64 | OL12122305M |
| 1994 | A.A. Knofp | – | 155 | OL876485M |
| 1994 | American Guidance Service | Paperback | 64 | OL11035818M |
| 1994 | Harold Berliner | Hardcover | 118 | OL11486075M |
| 1994 | American Guidance Service | Paperback | 64 | OL12122304M |
| 1994 | Longman Publishing Group | Paperback | 128 | OL10649888M |
| 1993 | The Library | – | 139 | OL1446742M |
| 1993 | Dickens House | – | 64 | OL39223826M |
| 1993 | LRS (Library Reproduction Service) | Library Binding | 140 | OL12279983M |
| 1993 | Pierpont Morgan Library | – | 139 | OL21242632M |
| 1992 | Houghton Mifflin (Jp) | – | 128 | OL7466942M |
| 1991 | J.M. Dent | – | 162 | OL1491180M |
| 1991 | Fabbri Publishing | – | 124 | OL31882224M |
| 1991 | Dover Publications | Paperback | 68 | OL1531449M |
| 1990 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | Paperback | 144 | OL9301675M |
| 1990 | Guild Publishing | – | 158 | OL45635049M |
| 1990 | Creative Education | – | 152 | OL1849892M |
| 1990 | Stewart, Tabori & Chang | – | 152 | OL96631M |
| 1990 | Random House Books for Young Readers | – | 59 | OL7463246M |
| 1990 | Random House | – | 59 | OL2202351M |
| 1990 | Ladybird Books | Hardcover | 52 | OL9598161M |
| 1990 | Running Press | – | 157 | OL1889412M |
| 1990 | Creative Editions/Harcourt Brace & Co. | – | 152 | OL910894M |
| 1989 | Avenel | – | 182 | OL2195340M |
| 1989 | Byers' Choice | – | 158 | OL45310806M |
| 1989 | Gollancz Children's Paperbacks | – | 128 | OL17435571M |
| 1989 | Hippo | – | 120 | OL32368019M |
| 1988 | Unicorn Publishing House | – | 71 | OL2034202M |
| 1988 | Picture Book Studio | – | 66 | OL2038740M |
| 1988 | Aerie Books | – | 116 | OL27300055M |
| 1987 | Unicorn Pub. House | – | 100 | OL2384996M |
| 1987 | Playmore and Walden | – | 130 | OL45449541M |
| 1986 | Bantam Classics | Paperback | 112 | OL7820410M |
| 1985 | Barron's | – | 81 | OL2535042M |
| 1984 | Gallery Books | – | 127 | OL26620297M |
| 1984 | Puffin | – | 112 | OL7353821M |
| 1984 | Chancellor | – | 106 | OL39223688M |
| 1983 | Gollancz | – | 128 | OL20972078M |
| 1983 | Book Club Associates | – | 117 | OL19211652M |
| 1983 | Holiday House | – | 118 | OL3502976M |
| 1983 | Little Simon | – | 122 | OL3159232M |
| 1983 | Messner | – | 122 | OL3159231M |
| 1983 | Dial Books | – | 128 | OL3165278M |
| 1983 | Creative Co (Sd) | Library Binding | 78 | OL11110396M |
| 1983 | Buccaneer Books | – | 128 | OL27778259M |
| 1982 | Penguin U S A | Hardcover | 52 | OL7862139M |
| 1981 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 176 | OL23142219M |
| 1980 | Monastery Hill Press | – | 148 | OL45682066M |
| 1980 | Watermill Press | – | 124 | OL26337281M |
| 1979 | St. Martin's Press | – | 78 | OL4431537M |
| 1978 | World's Work | – | 95 | OL32750667M |
| 1978 | Harrison Co. | – | 130 | OL4442357M |
| 1977 | – | – | 134 | OL58639268M |
| 1977 | Book Club | Hardcover | 117 | OL13936373M |
| 1976 | Harold Berliner | – | 117 | OL1763906M |
| 1976 | C.N. Potter | – | 182 | OL4889752M |
| 1976 | Heinemann | – | 147 | OL50467068M |
| 1976 | J. G. Ferguson Pub. Co. | – | 166 | OL4955216M |
| 1975 | Fleetwood | – | 166 | OL16852693M |
| 1975 | Oxford University Press | Paperback | 59 | OL10137293M |
| 1972 | Routledge and K. Paul | – | 64 | OL5252179M |
| 1971 | Dover | – | 142 | OL4584657M |
| 1971 | New York Public Library | – | 206 | OL5222403M |
| 1970 | Pocket Books | – | 224 | OL26331057M |
| 1969 | Lippincott | – | 147 | OL23267171M |
| 1969 | F. Watts | – | 148 | OL5751012M |
| 1968 | F. Watts | – | 134 | OL5683769M |
| 1967 | J. H. Heineman | – | 142 | OL5535027M |
| 1967 | University Microfilms Library Services | – | 166 | OL5545880M |
| 1967 | J.H. Heineman | – | 142 | OL21064342M |
| 1966 | Scholastic Book Services | – | 130 | OL45522398M |
| 1966 | Bantam Books | – | 131 | OL5996315M |
| 1966 | R. W. Rowe and partners | – | 174 | OL45228883M |
| 1966 | Atheneum | – | 148 | OL5978430M |
| 1965 | Perennial | – | 178 | OL58759175M |
| 1965 | The Paddington Corporation, New York | – | 166 | OL47762080M |
| 1964 | Lippincott Co. | – | 147 | OL5469686M |
| 1964 | Dell Pub. Co | – | 162 | OL50495760M |
| 1963 | Macmillan | – | 128 | OL16529561M |
| 1963 | Scholastic Services | – | 122 | OL24375763M |
| 1963 | Airmont Publishing Company,Inc. | – | 130 | OL58618696M |
| 1962 | Revell | – | 63 | OL5855610M |
| 1962 | Scholastic | – | 122 | OL24955825M |
| 1962 | Scholastic Book Services | – | 130 | OL58623578M |
| 1962 | – | – | 130 | OL58759279M |
| 1962 | Macmillan Company | – | 158 | OL45314593M |
| 1962 | Scholastic | – | 130 | OL58759202M |
| 1961 | World | – | 110 | OL23270129M |
| 1961 | World Pub. Co. | – | 109 | OL5826324M |
| 1960 | Macmillan Company | – | 140 | OL40426130M |
| 1958 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 106 | OL6263626M |
| 1958 | J. M. Dent & Sons | – | 198 | OL45474428M |
| 1958 | Pocket Library | – | 221 | OL47307496M |
| 1956 | Columbia University Press | – | 166 | OL6203245M |
| 1952 | Lippincott | – | 147 | OL6115219M |
| 1951 | Peter Pauper Press | – | 93 | OL24953321M |
| 1951 | The Peter Pauper Press | – | 93 | OL13633993M |
| 1950 | Reprint Society | – | 134 | OL47308632M |
| 1950 | Peter Pauper Press | – | 124 | OL52832747M |
| 1950 | Macmillan | – | 140 | OL6072585M |
| 1950 | Ransohoffs | – | 74 | OL3259790M |
| 1950 | The Cuneo Press | – | 146 | OL23337425M |
| 1940 | Monastery Hill Press | – | 212 | OL45341934M |
| 1940 | Foster G. McGaw | – | 121 | OL45316033M |
| 1940 | Foster G. McGaw | – | 134 | OL58759174M |
| 1940 | Monastery Hill Press | – | 148 | OL45711062M |
| 1940 | Printed by the Monastery Hill Press for Holiday House | – | 148 | OL45033897M |
| 1939 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 76 | OL24778290M |
| 1938 | Garden City Pub. Co. | – | 130 | OL16692598M |
| 1938 | The John C. Winston Company | – | 130 | OL6381155M |
| 1938 | Rand McNally & Company | – | 144 | OL45368801M |
| 1934 | Scholastic Press | – | 161 | OL5240243M |
| 1934 | Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Merr | – | 100 | OL24020389M |
| 1934 | Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Merr | – | 100 | OL24584461M |
| 1933 | Judd and Detweiler | – | 98 | OL5247608M |
| 1933 | W. Heinemann | – | 147 | OL43733026M |
| 1930 | W. E. Rudge | – | 246 | OL5231329M |
| 1930 | Press of the Woolly Whale | – | 78 | OL5232684M |
| 1929 | Saalfield Publishing Company | – | 249 | OL45368785M |
| 1925 | Everett & Elizabeth Currier | – | 121 | OL478041M |
| 1925 | E. & E. Currier | – | 121 | OL5244248M |
| 1925 | Ball Brothers Company | – | 121 | OL44517564M |
| 1924 | Thomas Y. Crowell Company | Hardcover | 92 | OL23337456M |
| 1924 | T. Y. Crowell Co. | – | 144 | OL6663160M |
| 1924 | C.E. Lauriat | – | 166 | OL45058570M |
| 1923 | The Macmillan Company | – | 166 | OL23375977M |
| 1922 | Loyola University Press | – | 127 | OL24443916M |
| 1922 | Roycroft Shop | – | 149 | OL23239373M |
| 1922 | Cecil Palmer | – | 166 | OL14014445M |
| 1922 | Cecil Palmer | – | 166 | OL7201757M |
| 1920 | The Atlantic Monthly Press | – | 166 | OL7164119M |
| 1915 | W. Heinemann | – | 147 | OL45016495M |
| 1915 | Little Leather Library Corporation | – | 127 | OL45029116M |
| 1915 | William Heinemann | – | 147 | OL45016487M |
| 1915 | J.B. Lippincott & Co. | – | 147 | OL44113146M |
| 1915 | J.B. Lippincott co. | – | 147 | OL45016491M |
| 1915 | Clark Bros. | – | 119 | OL53658691M |
| 1914 | David McKay | Hardcover | 130 | OL22336238M |
| 1914 | David McKay | – | 130 | OL6569325M |
| 1913 | Houghton, Mifflin & Co. | – | 128 | OL24658285M |
| 1913 | Houghton, Mifflin & Co. | – | 128 | OL24708114M |
| 1913 | Houghton, Mifflin & Co. | – | 128 | OL24785783M |
| 1911 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 136 | OL7034378M |
| 1911 | Hodder and Stoughton | – | 116 | OL6024606M |
| 1909 | Duffield & Co. | – | 149 | OL7012476M |
| 1909 | Morang | – | 119 | OL24396696M |
| 1907 | – | – | 54 | OL58670095M |
| 1902 | Roycroft Shop | – | 141 | OL25621126M |
| 1902 | Roycroft Shop | – | 141 | OL7035856M |
| 1902 | H. Altemus Co. | – | 196 | OL53636636M |
| 1901 | H. M. Caldwell Co. | – | 159 | OL61271744M |
| 1900 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | – | 157 | OL7057825M |
| 1897 | Century Co. | – | 224 | OL25278090M |
| 1893 | Houghton, Mifflin and company | – | 118 | OL6902229M |
| 1889 | I. Pitman & Sons | – | 112 | OL61312267M |
| 1887 | S. E. Cassino | – | 121 | OL24236480M |
| 1880 | Houghton, Osgood and Company | – | 144 | OL59788423M |
| 1880 | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | – | 144 | OL50494370M |
| 1876 | Lee and Shepard | – | 53 | OL7149488M |
| 1876 | J. R. Osgood | – | 144 | OL13569256M |
| 1873 | Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner | – | 106 | OL59281856M |
| 1869 | Ticknor and Fields | – | 111 | OL7236533M |
| 1869 | Ticknor and Fields | – | 111 | OL6902228M |
| 1868 | Houghton, Mifflin | – | 111 | OL13998784M |
| 1858 | Bradbury & Evans | – | 114 | OL20597272M |
| 1858 | Bradbury & Evans | – | 100 | OL45058548M |
| 1849 | Bradbury & Evans | – | 166 | OL58495429M |
| 1849 | Bradbury & Evans | – | 166 | OL60564425M |
| 1846 | Printed and published for the author by Bradbury and Evans | – | 166 | OL58495432M |
| 1844 | Carey & Hart | – | 158 | OL61066212M |
| 1843 | B. Tauchnitz | – | 112 | OL58500640M |
| 1843 | Chapman & Hall | – | 166 | OL6523667M |
| 1843 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 104 | OL55575681M |
| 1843 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 90 | OL55523858M |
| 1843 | J. B. Lippincott Company | – | 147 | OL26889425M |
| 1843 | Chapman & Hall | Hardcover | 166 | OL7157657M |
| 1843 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 106 | OL55877529M |
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Questions
- How many pages is A Christmas Carol?
- About 114 pages: that is the median of 521 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 52 to 250 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Christmas Carol?
- About 2 h 01 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
- How many words is A Christmas Carol?
- Roughly 31,000 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)).