Book · by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi · first published 2001
How many pages is An Autobiography?
An Autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has a median of 420 pages across 58 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 395 to 528 pages.
How long will An Autobiography 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 | 420 | 3 | 8 h 05 min |
| Paperback | 432 | 3 | 8 h 19 min |
Editions counted
The 58 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 140 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 248 | OL33828514M |
| 2020 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 248 | OL33835786M |
| 2020 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 248 | OL33828592M |
| 2020 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 248 | OL33835840M |
| 2019 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 464 | OL28926562M |
| 2019 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 464 | OL28723136M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 388 | OL30031534M |
| 2018 | Yale University Press | – | 816 | OL30591270M |
| 2018 | Penguin Books India PVT, Limited | – | 810 | OL33822978M |
| 2017 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 248 | OL33563334M |
| 2011 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 270 | OL42872116M |
| 2011 | Fitzhenry & Whiteside | – | 542 | OL43516802M |
| 2010 | Lexicon Books | – | 480 | OL35323447M |
| 2005 | Dover Publications | – | 253 | OL3308670M |
| 2005 | Dover Publications | Paperback | 256 | OL7639475M |
| 2004 | Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media | Unknown Binding | 528 | OL9857308M |
| 2001 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 464 | OL7359181M |
| 1997 | Cambridge University Press | Hardcover | 286 | OL7746894M |
| 1995 | Greenleaf Books (ME) | Paperback | 432 | OL8390707M |
| 1994 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 420 | OL21602182M |
| 1994 | South Asia Books | Hardcover | 420 | OL9080610M |
| 1993 | Beacon Press | – | 528 | OL1410987M |
| 1993 | Beacon Press | Paperback | 528 | OL7944918M |
| 1993 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 420 | OL20084705M |
| 1988 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 584 | OL44994127M |
| 1984 | Navajivan | – | 420 | OL20128578M |
| 1983 | Dover | – | 468 | OL23257115M |
| 1983 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 420 | OL18134085M |
| 1982 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 420 | OL19127720M |
| 1982 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 464 | OL7346911M |
| 1982 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 420 | OL21027745M |
| 1982 | Penguin Books | – | 454 | OL19452312M |
| 1972 | Harper & Row | Unknown Binding | 288 | OL9238595M |
| 1969 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 404 | OL20404740M |
| 1962 | Beacon Press | – | 528 | OL20065755M |
| 1960 | Public Affairs Press | – | 640 | OL22312649M |
| 1959 | Navajivan Pub. House. | – | 392 | OL16061216M |
| 1957 | Beacon Press | – | 528 | OL6219915M |
| 1954 | Public Affairs Pr. | – | 640 | OL15101451M |
| 1954 | Public Affairs Press | – | 640 | OL39478893M |
| 1952 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 260 | OL19634007M |
| 1950 | Hind Kitabs | – | 253 | OL4472113M |
| 1949 | Phoenix | – | 420 | OL14259669M |
| 1949 | Phoenix Press | – | 420 | OL6090135M |
| 1949 | Phoenix Press | – | 420 | OL13574231M |
| 1948 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 640 | OL18021596M |
| 1948 | Public Affairs Press | – | 640 | OL14480514M |
| 1948 | Public Affairs Press | – | 640 | OL28661082M |
| 1948 | Public Affairs Press (DC) | Hardcover | 640 | OL11388697M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 420 | OL37912369M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 331 | OL18774255M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Press | – | 404 | OL31956419M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 404 | OL22392081M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 422 | OL18959036M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Pub. House | – | 528 | OL22359280M |
| 1940 | Navajivan Publishing House | – | 404 | OL21765318M |
| – | Phoenix Press | – | 420 | OL19402334M |
| – | Phoenix Press | – | 420 | OL15630278M |
Questions
- How many pages is An Autobiography?
- About 420 pages: that is the median of 58 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 248 to 816 pages.
- How long does it take to read An Autobiography?
- About 8 h 05 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is An Autobiography?
- Roughly 116,000 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)).