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Book · by D. H. Lawrence · first published 1993

How many pages is Lady Chatterley's Lover?

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence has a median of 340 pages across 138 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 313 to 376 pages.

Median pages
340
138 editions counted
Range
160–689
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
94k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
6 h
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

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Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover36536 h 26 min
Paperback342106 h 01 min

Editions counted

The 138 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 3 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 515 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–446OL34235492M
2021Independently Published–332OL34294288M
2021Independently Published–447OL34353696M
2021Independently Published–446OL34244882M
2021Independently Published–401OL34220579M
2021Independently Published–401OL34305979M
2020Independently Published–395OL34250096M
2020Independently Published–248OL34252288M

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Questions

How many pages is Lady Chatterley's Lover?
About 340 pages: that is the median of 138 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 160 to 689 pages.
How long does it take to read Lady Chatterley's Lover?
About 6 h at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is Lady Chatterley's Lover?
Roughly 94,000 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)).