Book · by Karl Marx
How many pages is Das Kapital?
Das Kapital by Karl Marx has a median of 548 pages across 47 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 405 to 884 pages.
How long will Das Kapital take you?
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 | 376 | 3 | 7 h 14 min |
| Paperback | 546 | 3 | 10 h 31 min |
Editions counted
The 47 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 189 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Oxford University Press | – | 499 | OL16960832M |
| 2007 | Synergy International of the Americas, Ltd | Hardcover | 376 | OL12341883M |
| 2006 | Synergy International of the Americas, Ltd | Hardcover | 372 | OL9208561M |
| 1999 | Gateway Editions | Paperback | 256 | OL8250757M |
| 1999 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 544 | OL7384308M |
| 1995 | Oxford University Press | – | 499 | OL22477003M |
| 1995 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 454 | OL7383961M |
| 1993 | University Publishing House, Inc. | Paperback | 950 | OL8695209M |
| 1990 | Penguin Books in association with New Left Review | – | 1,152 | OL15626917M |
| 1990 | Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. | – | 434 | OL1978876M |
| 1984 | Franklin Library | – | 786 | OL2571558M |
| 1977 | Vintage | – | 1,152 | OL7462319M |
| 1972 | Dent | – | 897 | OL21550392M |
| 1971 | Ullstein | – | 1,019 | OL15276385M |
| 1970 | H. Regnery | – | 356 | OL13529328M |
| 1970 | Gateway Editions | – | 356 | OL13572247M |
| 1970 | Regnery Gateway | – | 356 | OL21285882M |
| 1967 | Intl Pub | Paperback | 546 | OL10530114M |
| 1962 | Dent | – | 929 | OL22430156M |
| 1962 | Henry Regnery | – | 356 | OL39803761M |
| 1959 | H. Regnery | – | 356 | OL14182862M |
| 1955 | Encyclopædia Britannica | – | 434 | OL25106102M |
| 1955 | Encyclopædia Britannica | – | 434 | OL6178259M |
| 1952 | Encyclopaedia Britannica | – | 434 | OL16370741M |
| 1947 | International Publishers | – | 886 | OL22789826M |
| 1946 | Routledge | Hardcover | 914 | OL9946548M |
| 1946 | Allen & Unwin | – | 886 | OL13947569M |
| 1938 | Allen & Unwin | – | 882 | OL13944233M |
| 1936 | The Modern library | – | 869 | OL6340082M |
| 1933 | Dent | – | 926 | OL20280535M |
| 1930 | Dent | – | 929 | OL26536066M |
| 1930 | Dent | – | 929 | OL13946690M |
| 1930 | Dent | – | 548 | OL13946689M |
| 1921 | International Bookshops | – | 284 | OL17337315M |
| 1921 | International Bookshops | – | 284 | OL7088258M |
| 1920 | William Glaisher | – | 816 | OL22573627M |
| 1912 | William Glaisher | – | 816 | OL22573629M |
| 1912 | W. Glaishner | – | 816 | OL20280556M |
| 1906 | Modern Library | – | 869 | OL16830099M |
| 1906 | Modern Library | – | 869 | OL26980812M |
| 1900 | Swan Sonnenschein | – | 816 | OL22573623M |
| 1891 | Swan Sonnenschein | – | 816 | OL22573621M |
| 1890 | The Humboldt Publishing Co. | – | 506 | OL16359057M |
| 1887 | Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey | – | 363 | OL22293369M |
| 1887 | Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey | – | 816 | OL22293365M |
| 1886 | Humboldt | – | 506 | OL17905429M |
| – | Thomas Nelson | – | 358 | OL22551006M |
Questions
- How many pages is Das Kapital?
- About 548 pages: that is the median of 47 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 256 to 1,152 pages.
- How long does it take to read Das Kapital?
- About 10 h 33 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 22 days.
- How many words is Das Kapital?
- Roughly 151,000 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)).