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How many pages is Das Glasperlenspiel?

Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse has a median of 520 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 502 to 558 pages.

Median pages
520
13 editions counted
Range
502–765
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.2h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
143k
at 275 words per page

How long will Das Glasperlenspiel take you?

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Reading time
9 h 10 min
At 30 min a day
19 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

5006007008001960198020001949: 502 pages1949: 502 pages1957: 502 pages1961: 765 pages1966: 502 pages1969: 558 pages1970: 558 pages1970: 520 pages1970: 520 pages1970: 520 pages1976: 612 pages1990: 558 pages2002: 558 pagesmedian 520
5006007008001960198020001949: 502 pages1949: 502 pages1957: 502 pages1961: 765 pages1966: 502 pages1969: 558 pages1970: 558 pages1970: 520 pages1970: 520 pages1970: 520 pages1976: 612 pages1990: 558 pages2002: 558 pagesmedian 520
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 73 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2002Picador USA–558OL3564699M
1990Owl BooksPaperback558OL7931565M
1976Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag–612OL21341123M
1970Cape–558OL5459757M
1970Bantam Books–520OL23242487M
1970Bantam Books–520OL16338564M
1970Bantam Books–520OL24213197M
1969Holt, Rinehart and Winston–558OL4752662M

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Questions

How many pages is Das Glasperlenspiel?
About 520 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 502 to 765 pages.
How long does it take to read Das Glasperlenspiel?
About 9 h 10 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
How many words is Das Glasperlenspiel?
Roughly 143,000 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)).