Book · by Ursula K. Le Guin
How many pages is A Wizard of Earthsea?
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin has a median of 197 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 183 to 205 pages.
How long will A Wizard of Earthsea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 183 | 3 | 3 h 14 min |
| Mass market | 183 | 3 | 3 h 14 min |
Editions counted
The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 87 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 272 | OL28695737M |
| 2012 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | – | 264 | OL26214273M |
| 2004 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 183 | OL7823135M |
| 2004 | Spectra | Paperback | 192 | OL7826592M |
| 1994 | Puffin Books | – | 238 | OL21558875M |
| 1991 | Atheneum | – | 197 | OL1865829M |
| 1986 | Chivers North America | Hardcover | 328 | OL9765003M |
| 1984 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 183 | OL7821338M |
| 1980 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 183 | OL7818851M |
| 1979 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 183 | OL7818375M |
| 1977 | Bantam Books | – | 183 | OL24224271M |
| 1975 | Bantam | – | 182 | OL22610055M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | – | 183 | OL22142359M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 183 | OL58719746M |
| 1971 | Penguin | – | 205 | OL5330225M |
| 1968 | Houghton Mifflin Company | – | 205 | OL7465879M |
| 1968 | Ace Pub. Co. | – | 205 | OL17579689M |
| 1968 | Parnassus Press | – | 205 | OL21015115M |
| 1968 | Parnassus Press | – | 205 | OL5613890M |
More by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 288 pagesThe Left Hand of Darkness
- 328 pagesThe Dispossessed
- 160 pagesThe Tombs of Atuan
- 184 pagesThe Lathe of Heaven
- 214 pagesThe Farthest Shore
- 169 pagesThe Word for World is Forest
All 10 books by Ursula K. Le Guin with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is A Wizard of Earthsea?
- About 197 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 182 to 328 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Wizard of Earthsea?
- About 3 h 28 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 Wizard of Earthsea?
- Roughly 54,000 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).