How many pages is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

Editions counted

The 54 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 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 245 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

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Questions

How many pages is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

About 162 pages: that is the median of 54 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 89 to 226 pages.

How long does it take to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

About 2 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.

How many words is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Roughly 45,000 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)).