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How many pages is A Swiftly Tilting Planet?

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle has a median of 275 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 256 to 278 pages.

Median pages
275
10 editions counted
Range
224–334
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
76k
at 275 words per page
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How long will A Swiftly Tilting Planet take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
4 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

2503003501980199020001978: 288 pages1978: 278 pages1979: 272 pages1981: 278 pages1991: 256 pages1993: 334 pages1997: 256 pages1999: 278 pages2007: 224 pages2007: 224 pagesmedian 275
2503003501980199020001978: 288 pages1978: 278 pages1979: 272 pages1981: 278 pages1991: 256 pages1993: 334 pages1997: 256 pages1999: 278 pages2007: 224 pages2007: 224 pagesmedian 275
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 24 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2007Square FishMass Market Paperback224OL9885850M
2007Square Fish, an imprint of Holtzbrinck PublishersPaperback224OL9525722M
1999Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding278OL8136426M
1997Bantam, Doubleday, Dell–256OL22455724M
1993Thorndike Press–334OL1412849M
1991Hodder and Stoughton–256OL17228049M
1981Dell–278OL13592420M
1979Laurel Leaf–272OL7523327M

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Questions

How many pages is A Swiftly Tilting Planet?
About 275 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 224 to 334 pages.
How long does it take to read A Swiftly Tilting Planet?
About 4 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
How many words is A Swiftly Tilting Planet?
Roughly 76,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).