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How many pages is Death of a Salesman?

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller has a median of 139 pages across 32 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 113 to 146 pages.

Median pages
139
32 editions counted
Range
85–269
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
38k
at 275 words per page

How long will Death of a Salesman take you?

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Reading time
2 h 27 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.

1002001960198020001949: 133 pages1949: 139 pages1951: 152 pages1952: 104 pages1958: 139 pages1960: 128 pages1961: 112 pages1965: 139 pages1968: 108 pages1968: 139 pages1969: 139 pages1976: 139 pages1977: 139 pages1977: 139 pages1980: 104 pages1981: 139 pages1981: 139 pages1984: 164 pages1987: 139 pages1987: 144 pages1998: 113 pages2000: 112 pages2000: 112 pages2005: 269 pages2010: 150 pages2011: 92 pages2011: 151 pages2014: 131 pages2015: 192 pages2015: 192 pages2017: 85 pages2019: 160 pagesmedian 139
1002001950197520001949: 133 pages1949: 139 pages1951: 152 pages1952: 104 pages1958: 139 pages1960: 128 pages1961: 112 pages1965: 139 pages1968: 108 pages1968: 139 pages1969: 139 pages1976: 139 pages1977: 139 pages1977: 139 pages1980: 104 pages1981: 139 pages1981: 139 pages1984: 164 pages1987: 139 pages1987: 144 pages1998: 113 pages2000: 112 pages2000: 112 pages2005: 269 pages2010: 150 pages2011: 92 pages2011: 151 pages2014: 131 pages2015: 192 pages2015: 192 pages2017: 85 pages2019: 160 pagesmedian 139
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 32 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 6 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 90 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Oxford University Press–160OL28708551M
2017Publisher not identifiedPaperback85OL35716705M
2015Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–192OL34506402M
2015Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–192OL34506374M
2014BloomsburyPaperback131OL26157390M
2011Hodder Education Group–92OL37951519M
2011Josef Weinberger PlaysPaperback151OL14679075M
2010Penguin–150OL26075126M

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Questions

How many pages is Death of a Salesman?
About 139 pages: that is the median of 32 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 85 to 269 pages.
How long does it take to read Death of a Salesman?
About 2 h 27 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
How many words is Death of a Salesman?
Roughly 38,000 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)).