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Book · by Gabriel García Márquez · first published 1993

How many pages is Chronicle of a Death Foretold?

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez has a median of 125 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 122 to 136 pages.

Median pages
125
12 editions counted
Range
120–193
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
34k
at 275 words per page

How long will Chronicle of a Death Foretold take you?

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Reading time
2 h 12 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.

12515017520019801990200020101980: 122 pages1981: 193 pages1982: 122 pages1983: 122 pages1983: 120 pages1984: 143 pages1996: 141 pages1997: 134 pages2003: 120 pages2003: 128 pages2008: 122 pages2014: 128 pagesmedian 125
125150175200198020001980: 122 pages1981: 193 pages1982: 122 pages1983: 122 pages1983: 120 pages1984: 143 pages1996: 141 pages1997: 134 pages2003: 120 pages2003: 128 pages2008: 122 pages2014: 128 pagesmedian 125
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 100 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2014PenguinPaperback128OL26616142M
2008Viking–122OL30103540M
2003Vintage International–120OL20943441M
2003Vintage InternationalPaperback128OL8362804M
1997Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.Paperback134OL9111805M
1996LongmanPaperback141OL9724283M
1984Ballantine BooksPaperback143OL22478733M
1983Pan–122OL14992901M

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Questions

How many pages is Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
About 125 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 120 to 193 pages.
How long does it take to read Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
About 2 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
How many words is Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Roughly 34,000 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)).