Book · by Charles Dickens · first published 2005
How many pages is Bleak House?
Bleak House by Charles Dickens has a median of 848 pages across 91 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 754 to 896 pages.
Median pages
848
91 editions counted
Range
394–1,296
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
15h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
233k
at 275 words per page
How long will Bleak House take you?
Reading time
14 h 57 min
At 30 min a day
30 days
At 1 hour a day
15 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 | 839 | 6 | 14 h 47 min |
| Paperback | 800 | 7 | 14 h 06 min |
Editions counted
The 91 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 418 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 567 | OL30206009M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 751 | OL30329055M |
| 2020 | West Margin Press | – | 844 | OL34162784M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 567 | OL30016109M |
| 2020 | Alma Classics | – | 992 | OL29478639M |
| 2020 | Pan Macmillan | – | 1,296 | OL28056918M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 773 | OL30195414M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 758 | OL29823764M |
| 2018 | Flame Tree Publishing | – | 640 | OL30597133M |
| 2017 | Dover Publications | – | 1,036 | OL28624015M |
| 2017 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 594 | OL34550803M |
| 2015 | Flame Tree Publishing | – | 640 | OL28502412M |
| 2013 | Joe Books Inc. | – | 950 | OL34070014M |
| 2013 | Start Publishing LLC | – | 840 | OL29680829M |
| 2012 | Vintage Books | – | 866 | OL25297050M |
| 2012 | Creative Media Partners, LLC | – | 394 | OL35490251M |
| 2011 | Penguin Publishing Group | – | 960 | OL29591258M |
| 2011 | Folio Society | – | 980 | OL45634650M |
| 2011 | Broadview Press | – | 829 | OL24855815M |
| 2011 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 1,088 | OL28471894M |
| 2010 | Priemier Classics | – | 891 | OL32357431M |
| 2008 | Vintage Books | – | 992 | OL28438803M |
| 2008 | Oxford University Press | – | 945 | OL22653570M |
| 2008 | Atlantic | – | 941 | OL24864603M |
| 2005 | Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library | Paperback | 512 | OL8510934M |
| 2005 | Barnes & Noble Classics | Paperback | 912 | OL8870314M |
| 2005 | Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library | Paperback | 518 | OL8510963M |
| 2005 | Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library | Paperback | 568 | OL8511201M |
| 2003 | Penguin Books | – | 1,036 | OL3702656M |
| 2003 | Signet Classic | – | 894 | OL3567636M |
| 2002 | Modern Library | – | 889 | OL45143662M |
| 1998 | Oxford University Press | – | 945 | OL472044M |
| 1997 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | Paperback | 800 | OL8978459M |
| 1996 | Oxford University Press | – | 945 | OL799683M |
| 1996 | Penguin | – | 1,036 | OL722003M |
| 1994 | J.M. Dent | – | 864 | OL22418777M |
| 1991 | Heinemann (Txt) | Paperback | 960 | OL7966025M |
| 1991 | Knopf | – | 891 | OL1567452M |
| 1991 | Everyman's Library | Hardcover | 880 | OL8998417M |
| 1987 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 902 | OL7382198M |
| 1986 | Folio Society | – | 886 | OL47310952M |
| 1985 | Modern Library | – | 836 | OL2862657M |
| 1985 | Folio Society | Hardcover with slipcase | 852 | OL24619461M |
| 1985 | Penguin Books | – | 965 | OL47310390M |
| 1985 | Bantam Classics | Mass Market Paperback | 848 | OL7820395M |
| 1983 | Bantam USA | Paperback | 818 | OL7820313M |
| 1977 | Dent | – | 808 | OL22367837M |
| 1977 | Norton | – | 986 | OL4541057M |
| 1976 | Pan Books | – | 891 | OL4588122M |
| 1972 | Dent | – | 808 | OL50463090M |
| 1971 | Crowell | – | 1,080 | OL4454790M |
| 1970 | Heritage Press | – | 870 | OL45527380M |
| 1970 | Oxford University Press | – | 880 | OL21467565M |
| 1970 | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | – | 857 | OL5217427M |
| 1966 | Dent | – | 808 | OL22203977M |
| 1964 | New American Library | – | 896 | OL20409448M |
| 1964 | New American Library | – | 896 | OL43777247M |
| 1964 | Signet Classics | – | 896 | OL7577107M |
| 1962 | Oxford University Press | – | 880 | OL22396041M |
| 1959 | Oxford University Press | – | 880 | OL22106197M |
| 1956 | Houghton Mifflin Company | – | 665 | OL6215175M |
| 1956 | Riverside Press | – | 665 | OL13713404M |
| 1953 | Collins | – | 799 | OL47310607M |
| 1953 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 595 | OL13572302M |
| 1953 | The Literary Guild of America, Inc. | Hardcover | 595 | OL6136747M |
| 1953 | Literary Guild Of America, Inc | – | 595 | OL45635389M |
| 1951 | Dodd, Mead & Company | – | 830 | OL5827962M |
| 1948 | Oxford University Press | – | 880 | OL23242527M |
| 1948 | Oxford University Press | – | 880 | OL6048013M |
| 1942 | The Heritage Press | Hardcover in Slipcase | 846 | OL6448773M |
| 1938 | Nonesuch Press | – | 874 | OL22230344M |
| 1936 | Books, Inc. | Hardcover | 830 | OL25128764M |
| 1916 | Collins' Clear Type Press | Hardcover | 832 | OL25432202M |
| 1907 | Dent | – | 808 | OL22601990M |
| 1906 | Chapman and Hall | – | 737 | OL24173616M |
| 1904 | Gresham Publishing Company | – | 678 | OL45456306M |
| 1895 | Macmillan and co. | – | 815 | OL6941539M |
| 1886 | Estes and Lauriat | – | 966 | OL24822571M |
| 1873 | Chapman and Hall | – | 440 | OL45058517M |
| 1868 | Books, Inc. | – | 830 | OL46973604M |
| 1868 | Books, Inc. | – | 830 | OL23238713M |
| 1853 | Bradbury and Evans | – | 624 | OL6975669M |
| 1853 | Chapman & Hall | – | 705 | OL7025019M |
| 1853 | M.A. Donohue | – | 893 | OL23766067M |
| 1853 | Bradbury and Evans | – | 624 | OL23281904M |
| 1853 | Colonial Press Company | – | 886 | OL20320356M |
| 1852 | Bradbury and Evans | – | 624 | OL44510200M |
| – | Thomas Nelson | – | 928 | OL13919008M |
| – | Odhams | – | 764 | OL13711814M |
| – | Collins Clear-Type Press | – | 832 | OL13711392M |
| – | Porter & Coates | – | 540 | OL26573390M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Bleak House?
- About 848 pages: that is the median of 91 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 394 to 1,296 pages.
- How long does it take to read Bleak House?
- About 14 h 57 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 30 days.
- How many words is Bleak House?
- Roughly 233,000 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)).