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Book · by J.R.R. Tolkien · first published 1949

How many pages is Farmer Giles of Ham?

Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien has a median of 78 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 78 to 86 pages.

Median pages
78
18 editions counted
Range
63–143
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
1.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
21k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
1 h 22 min
At 30 min a day
3 days
At 1 hour a day
2 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

10015019601980200020201949: 80 pages1949: 78 pages1949: 78 pages1949: 64 pages1949: 79 pages1949: 78 pages1950: 78 pages1961: 78 pages1965: 88 pages1965: 78 pages1969: 78 pages1975: 79 pages1976: 143 pages1978: 63 pages1978: 63 pages1999: 137 pages1999: 127 pages2023: 90 pagesmedian 78
1001501950197520001949: 80 pages1949: 78 pages1949: 78 pages1949: 64 pages1949: 79 pages1949: 78 pages1950: 78 pages1961: 78 pages1965: 88 pages1965: 78 pages1969: 78 pages1975: 79 pages1976: 143 pages1978: 63 pages1978: 63 pages1999: 137 pages1999: 127 pages2023: 90 pagesmedian 78
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 57 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2023HarperCollins Publishers Limited–90OL47683129M
1999Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag–137OL3542597M
1999Houghton Mifflin Co.–127OL40472M
1978Houghton Mifflin–63OL15350971M
1978Houghton Mifflin–63OL14502735M
1976Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag–143OL4520121M
1975Chivers–79OL17437124M
1969Allen & Unwin–78OL19907435M

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Questions

How many pages is Farmer Giles of Ham?
About 78 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 63 to 143 pages.
How long does it take to read Farmer Giles of Ham?
About 1 h 22 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 3 days.
How many words is Farmer Giles of Ham?
Roughly 21,000 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)).