Book · by Louisa May Alcott
How many pages is Good Wives?
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott has a median of 321 pages across 39 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 272 to 414 pages.
How long will Good Wives 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 | 328 | 2 | 5 h 47 min |
| Paperback | 392 | 8 | 6 h 55 min |
Editions counted
The 39 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 105 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alma Classics | – | 464 | OL33910335M |
| 2019 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | – | 368 | OL28731711M |
| 2019 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | – | 368 | OL28731710M |
| 2019 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | – | 368 | OL34098376M |
| 2018 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 432 | OL29393790M |
| 2015 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 432 | OL28556905M |
| 2014 | W F Howes Ltd | – | 394 | OL32102634M |
| 2012 | Penguin Random House | – | 464 | OL33458581M |
| 2012 | Penguin Random House | – | 464 | OL28485767M |
| 2009 | Ægypan Press | – | 218 | OL37774395M |
| 2007 | Book Jungle | Paperback | 324 | OL8877815M |
| 2006 | ReadHowYouWant.com | Paperback | 608 | OL11858383M |
| 2006 | ReadHowYouWant.com | Paperback | 368 | OL9600671M |
| 2006 | ReadHowYouWant.com | Paperback | 436 | OL9711592M |
| 2006 | ReadHowYouWant.com | Paperback | 584 | OL8501060M |
| 2005 | Adamant Media Corporation | Paperback | 196 | OL8373090M |
| 2004 | Kessinger Publishing, LLC | Paperback | 248 | OL8470913M |
| 2004 | HarperFestival | Paperback | 416 | OL9233352M |
| 1995 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 320 | OL7357180M |
| 1994 | Puffin Books | – | 349 | OL17303760M |
| 1988 | Purnell | – | 321 | OL15015033M |
| 1987 | Charnwood | – | 412 | OL22444679M |
| 1987 | Ulverscroft Large Print | Hardcover | 432 | OL9530330M |
| 1983 | Puffin | – | 318 | OL7353806M |
| 1981 | Smithmark Pub | Hardcover | 224 | OL7776595M |
| 1979 | Puffin | – | 314 | OL7353106M |
| 1978 | Puffin Books | – | 314 | OL18935831M |
| 1978 | Armada | – | 224 | OL14878371M |
| 1978 | Puffin Bks. | – | 314 | OL18197880M |
| 1974 | J M Dent & Sons Ltd | – | 296 | OL7592236M |
| 1970 | Armada | – | 224 | OL20223145M |
| 1966 | Rylee | – | 254 | OL19207036M |
| 1960 | W Foulsham & Co Ltd | – | 168 | OL45621855M |
| 1958 | Dean | – | 264 | OL47682508M |
| 1953 | Dent | – | 296 | OL19867918M |
| 1951 | Thames | – | 279 | OL13899653M |
| 1942 | W. Foulsham & Co. LTD. | – | 168 | OL45859735M |
| 1900 | T. Nelson | – | 335 | OL7138316M |
| – | Hutchinson | – | 320 | OL45013963M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Good Wives?
- About 321 pages: that is the median of 39 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 168 to 608 pages.
- How long does it take to read Good Wives?
- About 5 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is Good Wives?
- Roughly 88,000 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)).