Book · by Daniel Keyes
How many pages is Flowers for Algernon?
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes has a median of 238 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 216 to 286 pages.
How long will Flowers for Algernon 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 | 250 | 2 | 4 h 24 min |
| Paperback | 311 | 3 | 5 h 29 min |
| Mass market | 216 | 6 | 3 h 48 min |
Editions counted
The 21 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 81 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Harvest / Harcourt Inc. | Paperback | 311 | OL25566170M |
| 2004 | Harcourt | Paperback | 311 | OL28677690M |
| 2000 | Gollancz | Paperback | 224 | OL9002800M |
| 1995 | Chivers | – | 330 | OL22604243M |
| 1995 | G.K. Hall & Co. | – | 330 | OL1277742M |
| 1995 | Harcourt | – | 286 | OL7362425M |
| 1990 | Amereon Ltd | Hardcover | 225 | OL11295964M |
| 1990 | Harcourt Brace | – | 286 | OL864503M |
| 1984 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 216 | OL7822697M |
| 1978 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 216 | OL7817915M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 216 | OL16158860M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 216 | OL22596614M |
| 1972 | Bantam Books | – | 216 | OL17192783M |
| 1972 | Bantam Pathfinder Editions | mass market paperback | 216 | OL39823004M |
| 1970 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers | hardcover | 274 | OL29564184M |
| 1968 | Pan | – | 238 | OL14960575M |
| 1968 | Bantam Books | mass market paperback | 216 | OL39823060M |
| 1967 | Bantam Books | – | 216 | OL16076111M |
| 1966 | Amsco School Pub. | – | 259 | OL22458146M |
| 1966 | Harcourt, Brace & World | – | 274 | OL5983081M |
| 1966 | Cassell | – | 274 | OL61588917M |
Questions
- How many pages is Flowers for Algernon?
- About 238 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 216 to 330 pages.
- How long does it take to read Flowers for Algernon?
- About 4 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is Flowers for Algernon?
- Roughly 65,000 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)).