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How many pages is Doctor Faustus?

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann has a median of 510 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 510 to 531 pages.

Median pages
510
18 editions counted
Range
489–837
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
140k
at 275 words per page

How long will Doctor Faustus take you?

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Reading time
8 h 59 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

600800196019801948: 510 pages1948: 510 pages1959: 510 pages1965: 510 pages1966: 510 pages1966: 510 pages1967: 837 pages1968: 491 pages1971: 510 pages1971: 510 pages1974: 489 pages1992: 523 pages1992: 669 pages1992: 523 pages1992: 510 pages1997: 534 pages1997: 752 pages1999: 544 pagesmedian 510
600800196019801948: 510 pages1948: 510 pages1959: 510 pages1965: 510 pages1966: 510 pages1966: 510 pages1967: 837 pages1968: 491 pages1971: 510 pages1971: 510 pages1974: 489 pages1992: 523 pages1992: 669 pages1992: 523 pages1992: 510 pages1997: 534 pages1997: 752 pages1999: 544 pagesmedian 510
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 67 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1999Vintage–544OL7426135M
1997A.A. Knopf–534OL657658M
1997Penguin Random House–752OL28424933M
1992Knopf–523OL1567607M
1992The Modern Library–669OL1721360M
1992Everyman–523OL28428718M
1992Vintage International–510OL1568211M
1974Penguin Books–489OL20315876M

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Questions

How many pages is Doctor Faustus?
About 510 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 489 to 837 pages.
How long does it take to read Doctor Faustus?
About 8 h 59 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is Doctor Faustus?
Roughly 140,000 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)).