Book · by Anthony Burgess · first published 1972
How many pages is A Clockwork Orange?
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess has a median of 188 pages across 44 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 157 to 220 pages.
How long will A Clockwork Orange take you?
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 | 190 | 8 | 3 h 21 min |
| Paperback | 184 | 11 | 3 h 15 min |
| Mass market | 191 | 2 | 3 h 22 min |
Editions counted
The 44 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 145 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | W. W. Norton & Company | – | 240 | OL26876459M |
| 2013 | W. W. Norton / SFBC | paperback | 246 | OL27312733M |
| 2013 | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | – | 112 | OL34489339M |
| 2012 | W.W. Norton & Co. | Hardcover | 246 | OL26375934M |
| 2012 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 224 | OL29653692M |
| 2012 | William Heinemann | Hardcover | 352 | OL28478314M |
| 2012 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 224 | OL29631185M |
| 2011 | W.W. Norton & Co. | Paperback | 357 | OL24479799M |
| 2011 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 240 | OL29609429M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books | – | 168 | OL28447718M |
| 2007 | Paperview U.K. Ltd. | hardcover | 157 | OL49650325M |
| 2005 | Buccaneer Books | Library binding | 185 | OL8689596M |
| 2002 | Thorndike Press | – | 296 | OL3562028M |
| 2000 | Penguin Classics | paperback | 141 | OL27284158M |
| 1999 | Penguin Books | – | 148 | OL22586388M |
| 1996 | Penguin | – | 148 | OL22587317M |
| 1996 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 176 | OL9304554M |
| 1994 | Compact Books | – | 195 | OL22360125M |
| 1993 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 148 | OL7351909M |
| 1990 | Ballantine Books | paperback | 219 | OL49650202M |
| 1990 | Arrow | – | 91 | OL22276974M |
| 1988 | Norton | – | 192 | OL2729813M |
| 1988 | Ballantine Books | – | 219 | OL21184712M |
| 1987 | W W Norton & Company | Paperback | 192 | OL7452772M |
| 1987 | Penguin Books | paperback | 149 | OL9300792M |
| 1986 | W.W. Norton & Company | – | 192 | OL18375627M |
| 1982 | Bilgi | – | 223 | OL20574655M |
| 1977 | Zarbaros | – | 234 | OL20819527M |
| 1974 | Ballantine Books | mass market paperback | 191 | OL39219496M |
| 1972 | Ballantine Books | mass market paperback | 191 | OL27278038M |
| 1972 | Heinemann | Hardcover | 196 | OL22443492M |
| 1972 | Penguin Books | – | 143 | OL22199228M |
| 1972 | Penguin Books | – | 148 | OL20695353M |
| 1970 | [s.n.] | – | 156 | OL50479977M |
| 1965 | Ballantine Books | – | 187 | OL19297151M |
| 1964 | Pan Books | paperback | 189 | OL47184794M |
| 1963 | W.W. Norton and Co. | hardcover | 184 | OL43079214M |
| 1963 | Norton | – | 188 | OL43754795M |
| 1963 | W. W. Norton & Company | paperback | 184 | OL5877742M |
| 1963 | Norton | – | 188 | OL24938351M |
| 1963 | W.W. Norton & Company | – | 188 | OL15025786M |
| 1963 | W. W. Norton & Company | hardcover | 184 | OL23821832M |
| 1962 | Heinemann | Hardcover | 195 | OL17884963M |
| – | – | Paperback | 94 | OL9274603M |
Questions
- How many pages is A Clockwork Orange?
- About 188 pages: that is the median of 44 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 91 to 357 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Clockwork Orange?
- About 3 h 19 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is A Clockwork Orange?
- Roughly 52,000 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)).