Book · by George Orwell · first published 1997
How many pages is Animal Farm?
Animal Farm by George Orwell has a median of 119 pages across 109 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 100 to 139 pages.
Median pages
119
109 editions counted
Range
56–256
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
33k
at 275 words per page
How long will Animal Farm take you?
Reading time
2 h 06 min
At 30 min a day
5 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.
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 | 116 | 9 | 2 h 03 min |
| Paperback | 124 | 10 | 2 h 11 min |
Editions counted
The 109 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 9 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 653 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Arcturus | Hardback | 96 | OL62597685M |
| 2025 | Hern Books, Limited, Nick | – | 80 | OL57747952M |
| 2025 | Penguin Random House | – | 144 | OL57547604M |
| 2025 | Hern Books, Limited, Nick | – | 80 | OL57745344M |
| 2024 | Sweet Cherry Publishing | – | 128 | OL54066642M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34298031M |
| 2021 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 96 | OL33942287M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 120 | OL34289958M |
| 2021 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 144 | OL29515189M |
| 2021 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | Paperback | 144 | OL35559194M |
| 2021 | Pan Macmillan | – | 128 | OL29545228M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 89 | OL34249906M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 118 | OL34256421M |
| 2021 | Scholastic | – | 144 | OL29539236M |
| 2021 | Wordsworth Editions, Limited | – | 256 | OL37313381M |
| 2021 | Albatross Publishers | paperback | 58 | OL37794059M |
| 2021 | Faber & Faber, Limited | – | 144 | OL29450447M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 80 | OL30274272M |
| 2020 | LDS Marketing | paperback | 139 | OL32573179M |
| 2020 | Editorium, The | – | 100 | OL30306261M |
| 2020 | Penguin Random House | – | 144 | OL29479387M |
| 2020 | Harrap's | paperback | 128 | OL48590817M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 109 | OL30323120M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 176 | OL54852396M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 56 | OL55029804M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 80 | OL54728534M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 76 | OL55505022M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 202 | OL55610234M |
| 2018 | Penguin Random House | – | 216 | OL28696696M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 134 | OL55497126M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 56 | OL56509579M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 134 | OL55467006M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 84 | OL54751047M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 90 | OL55582805M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 56 | OL56616347M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 68 | OL56400545M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 112 | OL56554893M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 112 | OL56673158M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 68 | OL55332524M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 76 | OL56605834M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 96 | OL55424361M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 78 | OL55478495M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 76 | OL54945203M |
| 2014 | Text Publishing Company | – | 160 | OL28520945M |
| 2012 | Brawtley Press | – | 115 | OL38214530M |
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 128 | OL28438190M |
| 2007 | Penguin in association with Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. | – | 113 | OL32868131M |
| 2007 | Hampton-Brown | – | 158 | OL23398127M |
| 2005 | 1st World Library | Hardcover | 116 | OL8491444M |
| 2004 | 1st World Library | Paperback | 113 | OL8881855M |
| 2004 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 128 | OL40333468M |
| 2003 | Plume | – | 128 | OL7591003M |
| 2000 | Longman | Hardcover | 144 | OL7881284M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 144 | OL7358912M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 176 | OL8136296M |
| 1999 | NY : Harcourt Brace & Company (1995) | – | 208 | OL7509328M |
| 1999 | Transaction Publishers | – | 113 | OL377541M |
| 1997 | Folio Society | – | 110 | OL37800339M |
| 1996 | Longman | Paperback | 119 | OL7880085M |
| 1996 | Harcourt | – | 180 | OL7362431M |
| 1996 | Signet Classic | – | 140 | OL24950700M |
| 1996 | Signet Classics | – | 140 | OL31677688M |
| 1996 | Plume | – | 128 | OL7590738M |
| 1996 | Signet Classic | Hardcover | 140 | OL7669972M |
| 1995 | Secker & Warburg | hardcover | 144 | OL27284688M |
| 1995 | Harcourt Brace | – | 179 | OL559955M |
| 1993 | Knopf | – | 113 | OL1745000M |
| 1993 | Penguin Books | – | 112 | OL7352063M |
| 1992 | Penguin Books | Hardcover | 112 | OL9302834M |
| 1991 | Longman Publishing Group | Paperback | 136 | OL7879515M |
| 1991 | Longman | – | 122 | OL18354629M |
| 1990 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | – | 124 | OL1876128M |
| 1990 | Signet Classic | – | 128 | OL1186724M |
| 1989 | Penguin | – | 113 | OL18590182M |
| 1989 | Penguin | – | 94 | OL22163727M |
| 1989 | Penguin | – | 128 | OL20756935M |
| 1987 | Penguin in association with Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. | – | 95 | OL22480378M |
| 1987 | Secker & Warburg | – | 196 | OL15044136M |
| 1985 | Framo Publishing | Paperback | 96 | OL11505604M |
| 1984 | Charnwood | – | 124 | OL22432033M |
| 1984 | Smoloskyp, Incorporated | Hardcover | 98 | OL11411680M |
| 1983 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | – | 155 | OL3166535M |
| 1983 | Longman | – | 103 | OL21550890M |
| 1982 | Grammata | – | 127 | OL21782109M |
| 1977 | Penguin Books in Association with Martin Secker & Warburg | mass market paperback | 128 | OL27289022M |
| 1975 | Lythway Press | – | 154 | OL17343103M |
| 1973 | Penguin Books in association with Secker & Warburg | – | 119 | OL21484366M |
| 1971 | Secker and Warburg | – | 104 | OL5454342M |
| 1968 | Longmans | – | 121 | OL39803645M |
| 1965 | Secker & Warburg | – | 110 | OL18871874M |
| 1965 | Time | – | 131 | OL23334545M |
| 1962 | Secker & Warburg | – | 110 | OL16181323M |
| 1962 | New American Library | – | 110 | OL39803655M |
| 1956 | The New American Library | – | 128 | OL13567708M |
| 1954 | – | – | 118 | OL58622222M |
| 1954 | Harcourt, Brace | – | 155 | OL23248611M |
| 1954 | Harcourt, Brace & World | – | 155 | OL6157133M |
| 1951 | Penguin | Paperback | 120 | OL16232076M |
| 1946 | New American Library | – | 128 | OL25429023M |
| 1946 | Secker & Warburg | – | 91 | OL18164242M |
| 1946 | New American Library | – | 128 | OL24200240M |
| 1946 | Harcourt, Brace and Company | – | 118 | OL37800320M |
| 1946 | Secker & Warburg | – | 118 | OL22336879M |
| 1946 | – | – | 130 | OL58644300M |
| 1946 | Harcourt, Brace and company | – | 118 | OL6498962M |
| 1946 | Harcourt, Brace and Company | – | 118 | OL23269355M |
| 1945 | Longman Group United Kingdom | Paperback | 128 | OL7881743M |
| 1945 | Penguin Books | – | 119 | OL22204388M |
| 1945 | Secker & Warburg | Hardcover | 92 | OL15551754M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Animal Farm?
- About 119 pages: that is the median of 109 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 56 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read Animal Farm?
- About 2 h 06 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
- How many words is Animal Farm?
- Roughly 33,000 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)).