Book · by Mary Shelley
How many pages is Frankenstein?
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has a median of 270 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 243 to 336 pages.
How long will Frankenstein 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 | 260 | 2 | 4 h 36 min |
| Paperback | 288 | 3 | 5 h 05 min |
Editions counted
The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 90 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | W. W. Norton & Company | Paperback | 584 | OL33919770M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 293 | OL34171655M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 221 | OL34330112M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 212 | OL34133921M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 243 | OL30363226M |
| 2020 | Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated | – | 384 | OL30183544M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 239 | OL29954712M |
| 2020 | Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated | – | 384 | OL30183541M |
| 2019 | Oxford University Press | – | 336 | OL28729171M |
| 2018 | Penguin Books, Limited | Paperback | 288 | OL28642473M |
| 2015 | Enhanced Media | Hardcover | 169 | OL35351767M |
| 2008 | Oxford University Press | – | 261 | OL23170837M |
| 1998 | Oxford University Press | – | 261 | OL477632M |
| 1996 | Norton | – | 132 | OL7452480M |
| 1996 | W.W. Norton | – | 132 | OL16646335M |
| 1996 | W.W. Norton | – | 339 | OL24955590M |
| 1996 | W.W. Norton | – | 339 | OL801547M |
| 1994 | Broadview Press | Paperback | 280 | OL8551285M |
| 1994 | University of California Press | – | 270 | OL29603232M |
| 1994 | Broadview Press | – | 280 | OL22485468M |
| 1993 | Ashgate Publishing | Hardcover | 352 | OL11952489M |
| 1992 | J.M. Dent | – | 243 | OL1485887M |
| 1984 | University of California Press | – | 270 | OL28945013M |
| 1984 | University of California Press | – | 254 | OL2838472M |
| 1982 | University of Chicago Press | – | 287 | OL4273430M |
More by Mary Shelley
All 3 books by Mary Shelley with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Frankenstein?
- About 270 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 132 to 584 pages.
- How long does it take to read Frankenstein?
- About 4 h 46 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is Frankenstein?
- Roughly 74,000 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)).