Book · by Thomas Pynchon · first published 1973
How many pages is Gravity's Rainbow?
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon has a median of 780 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 760 to 887 pages.
How long will Gravity's Rainbow take you?
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 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 44 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Penguin Classics | – | 784 | OL7361806M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books | – | 776 | OL6900801M |
| 1995 | Vintage | – | 760 | OL22633189M |
| 1995 | Penguin Books | – | 760 | OL922236M |
| 1987 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | – | 768 | OL7347740M |
| 1984 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 887 | OL7822020M |
| 1981 | Picador | – | 836 | OL58922210M |
| 1980 | Viking Press | – | 900 | OL5301957M |
| 1975 | Pan Books | – | 760 | OL17853458M |
| 1974 | Bantam Books | – | 887 | OL19523087M |
| 1974 | Bantam Books | – | 887 | OL16444827M |
| 1974 | Bantam Books | – | 887 | OL27312371M |
| 1973 | Viking Press | – | 760 | OL37890773M |
| 1973 | Cape | – | 760 | OL5230169M |
| 1973 | Viking | – | 760 | OL59248218M |
| 1973 | Bantam | – | 898 | OL58857511M |
Questions
- How many pages is Gravity's Rainbow?
- About 780 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 760 to 900 pages.
- How long does it take to read Gravity's Rainbow?
- About 13 h 45 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 28 days.
- How many words is Gravity's Rainbow?
- Roughly 214,000 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)).