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Book · by Dorothy L. Sayers · first published 1993

How many pages is Gaudy Night?

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers has a median of 480 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 447 to 506 pages.

Median pages
480
19 editions counted
Range
383–746
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
132k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
8 h 28 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

40060080019401960198020001935: 483 pages1935: 483 pages1936: 469 pages1960: 469 pages1963: 447 pages1968: 383 pages1968: 383 pages1975: 447 pages1976: 483 pages1981: 741 pages1986: 469 pages1992: 446 pages1992: 746 pages1993: 480 pages1995: 501 pages1995: 512 pages1998: 422 pages2012: 544 pages2016: 576 pagesmedian 480
400600800195020001935: 483 pages1935: 483 pages1936: 469 pages1960: 469 pages1963: 447 pages1968: 383 pages1968: 383 pages1975: 447 pages1976: 483 pages1981: 741 pages1986: 469 pages1992: 446 pages1992: 746 pages1993: 480 pages1995: 501 pages1995: 512 pages1998: 422 pages2012: 544 pages2016: 576 pagesmedian 480
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 72 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2016Hodder & Stoughton–576OL28610354M
2012Harper Paperbacks–544OL26706886M
1998The Folio Society–422OL19147809M
1995Tandem LibraryLibrary Binding501OL11762700M
1995HarperTorchMass Market Paperback512OL9241602M
1993Harpercollins–480OL7284641M
1992Coronet–446OL22411252M
1992Random House Value PublishingHardcover746OL10982903M

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Questions

How many pages is Gaudy Night?
About 480 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 383 to 746 pages.
How long does it take to read Gaudy Night?
About 8 h 28 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Gaudy Night?
Roughly 132,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).