Book · by James Joyce
How many pages is Finnegans Wake?
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce has a median of 593 pages across 64 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 374 to 628 pages.
How long will Finnegans Wake take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 64 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 15 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 128 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Alma Classics | – | 672 | OL29411158M |
| 2012 | Penguin Books | – | 523 | OL26037445M |
| 2012 | Oxford University Press | – | 720 | OL28480552M |
| 2002 | Faber and Faber | Paperback | 628 | OL7858008M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 688 | OL7358940M |
| 1999 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 628 | OL48517M |
| 1992 | Penguin Books | – | 682 | OL21100060M |
| 1992 | Paladin | – | 628 | OL32769420M |
| 1992 | Penguin Books | – | 628 | OL19696160M |
| 1992 | Vintage | Paperback | 628 | OL7966763M |
| 1982 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | – | 640 | OL7346839M |
| 1982 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL16269429M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 379 | OL4717543M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 435 | OL4717547M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 387 | OL4740527M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 487 | OL4729884M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 387 | OL4729885M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 435 | OL4722432M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 325 | OL4546742M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 286 | OL4714888M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 439 | OL4740528M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 358 | OL4717542M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 356 | OL4714884M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 418 | OL4544912M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 290 | OL4717506M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 445 | OL4714889M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 433 | OL4544460M |
| 1978 | Garland Pub. | – | 446 | OL4714887M |
| 1977 | Garland Pub. | – | 387 | OL4553333M |
| 1976 | Penguin | – | 628 | OL22342482M |
| 1976 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL16558234M |
| 1975 | Faber | – | 628 | OL4928372M |
| 1967 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL24371908M |
| 1967 | Viking Press | – | 256 | OL16380348M |
| 1967 | Viking Press | – | 256 | OL5534656M |
| 1966 | Faber & Faber | – | 278 | OL23317194M |
| 1966 | Faber & Faber | – | 278 | OL13535761M |
| 1966 | Faber | – | 278 | OL15066419M |
| 1965 | Viking | – | 558 | OL47718651M |
| 1964 | Faber & Faber | – | 628 | OL16162856M |
| 1963 | Faber and Faber | – | 330 | OL20827453M |
| 1963 | University of Texas Press | – | 330 | OL20410418M |
| 1963 | University of Texas Press | – | 330 | OL16162851M |
| 1963 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL22404763M |
| 1963 | University of Texas Press | – | 330 | OL16828810M |
| 1963 | Faber and Faber | – | 330 | OL17580676M |
| 1963 | University of Texas Press | – | 330 | OL5853547M |
| 1959 | Viking | – | 628 | OL22583671M |
| 1959 | Viking Press | – | 540 | OL22761591M |
| 1959 | Viking Press | – | 558 | OL48585588M |
| 1958 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL38624054M |
| 1958 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL15569252M |
| 1957 | Viking Press | – | 643 | OL6265574M |
| 1957 | Viking Press | – | 643 | OL20931154M |
| 1950 | Faber and Faber | – | 628 | OL18956637M |
| 1947 | Viking Press | – | 628 | OL22185450M |
| 1946 | Faber and Faber | – | 628 | OL22720737M |
| 1945 | Viking Press | – | 643 | OL17560950M |
| 1939 | Faber & Faber | – | 628 | OL13837215M |
| 1939 | Faber and Faber Ltd. | – | 628 | OL44995499M |
| 1939 | Viking | – | 643 | OL16603109M |
| 1939 | The Viking Press | – | 628 | OL6386320M |
| 1939 | Faber and Faber | – | 628 | OL44995501M |
| 1939 | Faber & Faber | – | 628 | OL13919555M |
More by James Joyce
All 4 books by James Joyce with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Finnegans Wake?
- About 593 pages: that is the median of 64 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 256 to 720 pages.
- How long does it take to read Finnegans Wake?
- About 10 h 27 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 21 days.
- How many words is Finnegans Wake?
- Roughly 163,000 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)).