Book · by John Steinbeck · first published 1952
How many pages is East of Eden?
East of Eden by John Steinbeck has a median of 602 pages across 36 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 578 to 691 pages.
How long will East of Eden 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 | 601 | 7 | 10 h 36 min |
| Paperback | 602 | 3 | 10 h 37 min |
| Mass market | 691 | 2 | 12 h 11 min |
Editions counted
The 36 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 104 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 736 | OL28634650M |
| 2014 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 720 | OL28531060M |
| 2012 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 736 | OL29078258M |
| 2004 | Wheeler Pub. | – | 891 | OL3692747M |
| 2003 | Viking | Hardcover | 608 | OL7641255M |
| 2003 | Tandem Library | Library Binding | 601 | OL11762733M |
| 2003 | Longman | Hardcover | 768 | OL7881438M |
| 2002 | Penguin | Paperback | 601 | OL24328641M |
| 2002 | Penguin Books | Hardcover | 601 | OL27900620M |
| 2001 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 736 | OL7352522M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 640 | OL7359062M |
| 1995 | Mandarin | – | 665 | OL22598499M |
| 1995 | Minerva | – | 666 | OL22640538M |
| 1993 | Penguin | – | 640 | OL14949449M |
| 1992 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 602 | OL1710270M |
| 1986 | Viking | Hardcover | 778 | OL2708930M |
| 1986 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 778 | OL2709690M |
| 1981 | Penguin Books | Mass Market Paperback | 691 | OL26647135M |
| 1976 | Ulverscroft Large Print | Hardcover | 436 | OL9823135M |
| 1976 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 691 | OL7818064M |
| 1971 | Distributed by Heron Books | – | 526 | OL5294747M |
| 1970 | Heinemann | Hardcover | 525 | OL22640535M |
| 1970 | Viking | – | 602 | OL20668903M |
| 1964 | Viking Press | – | 602 | OL22327743M |
| 1963 | Pan Macmillan | – | 576 | OL28967896M |
| 1963 | Pan Books Ltd. | – | 578 | OL58817945M |
| 1961 | Viking Press | – | 602 | OL53110357M |
| 1961 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 602 | OL21573184M |
| 1958 | W. Heinemann | – | 525 | OL15080301M |
| 1955 | Bantam Books | – | 534 | OL16185532M |
| 1952 | Viking Press | – | 602 | OL6108712M |
| 1952 | Viking Press | – | 602 | OL52851606M |
| 1952 | Viking Press | – | 538 | OL49203562M |
| 1952 | Sears Readers Club | – | 602 | OL18200943M |
| 1952 | Heinemann | – | 525 | OL45055010M |
| – | William Heinemann | – | 525 | OL26607795M |
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Questions
- How many pages is East of Eden?
- About 602 pages: that is the median of 36 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 436 to 891 pages.
- How long does it take to read East of Eden?
- About 10 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 22 days.
- How many words is East of Eden?
- Roughly 166,000 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)).