Book · by Umberto Eco · first published 2003
How many pages is Foucault's Pendulum?
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco has a median of 641 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 632 to 654 pages.
Median pages
641
15 editions counted
Range
533–658
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
176k
at 275 words per page
How long will Foucault's Pendulum take you?
Reading time
11 h 18 min
At 30 min a day
23 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days
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 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 81 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Penguin Random House | – | 656 | OL33541811M |
| 2007 | Harvest Books | – | 623 | OL7365781M |
| 2007 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers | – | 658 | OL29014922M |
| 2001 | Vintage | Paperback | 652 | OL7316969M |
| 1997 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 656 | OL9405981M |
| 1990 | Balllantine Books | Paperback | 560 | OL22774807M |
| 1990 | Ballantine Books | – | 533 | OL24951348M |
| 1990 | Quality Paperbacks Direct | – | 641 | OL13936540M |
| 1990 | QPD | – | 641 | OL19674536M |
| 1990 | Ballantine Books | – | 533 | OL26333978M |
| 1989 | Secker & Warburg | – | 641 | OL1801668M |
| 1989 | Guild Publishing | – | 641 | OL19581377M |
| 1989 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) | – | 658 | OL58623163M |
| 1989 | Harcourt Brace Javanovich | Hardcover | 641 | OL26175155M |
| 1989 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | – | 641 | OL2209760M |
Questions
- How many pages is Foucault's Pendulum?
- About 641 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 533 to 658 pages.
- How long does it take to read Foucault's Pendulum?
- About 11 h 18 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
- How many words is Foucault's Pendulum?
- Roughly 176,000 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)).