Book · by Ira Levin · first published 1953
How many pages is A Kiss Before Dying?
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin has a median of 288 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 280 to 294 pages.
How long will A Kiss Before Dying 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 | 274 | 2 | 4 h 50 min |
| Paperback | 304 | 3 | 5 h 22 min |
Editions counted
The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 3 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 54 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 288 | OL57525175M |
| 2021 | Pegasus Books | – | 288 | OL34363659M |
| 2011 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL52594083M |
| 2011 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 288 | OL29060491M |
| 2011 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 288 | OL33479665M |
| 2011 | Pegasus Books | – | 288 | OL34016546M |
| 2011 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL52592521M |
| 2011 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL52587325M |
| 2011 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL52588895M |
| 2003 | Carroll & Graf | Paperback | 304 | OL8141199M |
| 2001 | Center Point Large Print | Hardcover | 304 | OL9402015M |
| 2000 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd | Paperback | 304 | OL7961925M |
| 1999 | ImPress Mystery | – | 272 | OL40621M |
| 1994 | Signet | – | 239 | OL17126699M |
| 1976 | Lythway Press | – | 424 | OL20775295M |
| 1976 | Joseph | – | 254 | OL17371891M |
| 1964 | Jove | Paperback | 300 | OL7655915M |
| 1953 | Simon and Schuster | – | 230 | OL51005673M |
| 1953 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 244 | OL6131023M |
More by Ira Levin
All 4 books by Ira Levin with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is A Kiss Before Dying?
- About 288 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 230 to 424 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Kiss Before Dying?
- About 5 h 05 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is A Kiss Before Dying?
- Roughly 79,000 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)).