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How many pages is A Man of the People?

A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe has a median of 149 pages across 22 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 141 to 166 pages.

Median pages
149
22 editions counted
Range
141–182
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
41k
at 275 words per page

How long will A Man of the People take you?

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Reading time
2 h 38 min
At 30 min a day
6 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.

1401601801970198019901966: 149 pages1966: 180 pages1966: 166 pages1966: 166 pages1966: 182 pages1967: 162 pages1967: 166 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1975: 149 pages1977: 149 pages1979: 166 pages1988: 176 pages1989: 150 pages1999: 149 pagesmedian 149
14016018019801966: 149 pages1966: 180 pages1966: 166 pages1966: 166 pages1966: 182 pages1967: 162 pages1967: 166 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1967: 141 pages1975: 149 pages1977: 149 pages1979: 166 pages1988: 176 pages1989: 150 pages1999: 149 pagesmedian 149
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 22 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 40 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1999Heinemann–149OL22408017M
1989Anchor Books–150OL2045839M
1988Heinemann Educational–176OL22779627M
1979Heinemann–166OL21933176M
1977Heinemann–149OL21973012M
1975Heinemann–149OL13673150M
1967Doubleday/Anchor–162OL48599775M
1967Heinemann–166OL23766210M

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Questions

How many pages is A Man of the People?
About 149 pages: that is the median of 22 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 141 to 182 pages.
How long does it take to read A Man of the People?
About 2 h 38 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is A Man of the People?
Roughly 41,000 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)).