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How many pages is By the River Piedra I sat down and wept?

By the River Piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho has a median of 210 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 208 to 210 pages.

Median pages
210
10 editions counted
Range
180–250
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
58k
at 275 words per page

How long will By the River Piedra I sat down and wept 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
3 h 42 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1752002252501996199820002002200420061996: 180 pages1996: 210 pages1996: 210 pages1997: 210 pages1999: 210 pages1999: 224 pages2004: 250 pages2005: 192 pages2006: 208 pagesmedian 210
175200225250200020051996: 180 pages1996: 210 pages1996: 210 pages1997: 210 pages1999: 210 pages1999: 224 pages2004: 250 pages2005: 192 pages2006: 208 pagesmedian 210
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 72 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2006Harper Perennial–208OL7288222M
2005Harper Collins–192OL32083111M
2004French & European PubnsPaperback250OL10458730M
1999HarperCollins for The Book People–210OL19112954M
1999HarperCollins Publishers LtdPaperback224OL7864874M
1997HarperPerennial–210OL24751544M
1996HarperCollins–180OL26638481M
1996HarperSanFrancisco–210OL816001M

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Questions

How many pages is By the River Piedra I sat down and wept?
About 210 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 180 to 250 pages.
How long does it take to read By the River Piedra I sat down and wept?
About 3 h 42 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is By the River Piedra I sat down and wept?
Roughly 58,000 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)).