Book · by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · first published 1971
How many pages is Le Petit Prince?
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has a median of 96 pages across 72 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 91 to 114 pages.
How long will Le Petit Prince 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 | 122 | 3 | 2 h 09 min |
| Paperback | 112 | 3 | 1 h 58 min |
Editions counted
The 72 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 12 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 699 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 144 | OL33782188M |
| 2022 | Chiltern Publishing Ltd | – | 112 | OL34108706M |
| 2021 | Wordsworth Editions, Limited | – | 112 | OL33938648M |
| 2021 | Arcturus Publishing | – | 112 | OL33953195M |
| 2020 | Penguin Random House | – | 96 | OL29420289M |
| 2020 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | – | 96 | OL29853672M |
| 2020 | Pan Macmillan | – | 128 | OL29503884M |
| 2019 | Alma Classics | – | 112 | OL28902567M |
| 2019 | Cernunnos | – | 128 | OL33310482M |
| 2018 | Wordsworth Editions, Limited | – | 144 | OL33319412M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 62 | OL55379646M |
| 2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 48 | OL55905313M |
| 2018 | White Star | – | 80 | OL33317672M |
| 2018 | Penguin Random House | – | 96 | OL33318525M |
| 2017 | Egmont Books, Limited | – | 96 | OL33314317M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 82 | OL55215072M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 64 | OL55862861M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 94 | OL55408578M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 98 | OL55204105M |
| 2016 | Pan Macmillan | – | 136 | OL33308924M |
| 2016 | Brolga Publishing | – | 96 | OL33968471M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 108 | OL55890026M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 82 | OL55563369M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 64 | OL55978875M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 64 | OL55314841M |
| 2015 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 96 | OL34010396M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 94 | OL54632376M |
| 2015 | Kondeatis Designs Limited, Christos | – | 112 | OL33492300M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 110 | OL55295786M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 68 | OL54642577M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 68 | OL55421225M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 106 | OL55485766M |
| 2014 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 96 | OL56384519M |
| 2013 | HMH Books for Young Readers | – | 96 | OL26377674M |
| 2013 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 116 | OL54383816M |
| 2011 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 134 | OL54152477M |
| 2010 | Crw Publishing | – | 120 | OL27061558M |
| 2010 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 118 | OL33249360M |
| 2009 | HMH Books | – | 168 | OL24886645M |
| 2005 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 168 | OL8137010M |
| 2005 | Thorndike Press | Paperback | 168 | OL8137011M |
| 2003 | Harcourt Children's Books | – | 96 | OL7363262M |
| 2002 | Egmont | – | 87 | OL25556821M |
| 2000 | Egmont Books | – | 83 | OL22116913M |
| 2000 | Harcourt | Hardcover | 96 | OL48619M |
| 2000 | Farshore | – | 96 | OL35746108M |
| 2000 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 96 | OL33995936M |
| 1998 | Pavilion Books | – | 96 | OL33346448M |
| 1998 | NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company | Paperback | 112 | OL8978524M |
| 1997 | Heinemann | – | 128 | OL52525133M |
| 1997 | Pavilion Books | – | 128 | OL33348956M |
| 1995 | Penguin | – | 118 | OL14949454M |
| 1995 | Wordsworth | Paperback | 109 | OL22609272M |
| 1995 | G.K. Hall | – | 180 | OL804137M |
| 1993 | Harcourt Brace & Co. | – | 97 | OL1733185M |
| 1988 | The Trumpet Club | – | 113 | OL7523005M |
| 1984 | Amereon Limited | Hardcover | 122 | OL11295844M |
| 1982 | Pan | – | 91 | OL22202673M |
| 1982 | Piccolo in association with Heinemann | – | 89 | OL22486014M |
| 1982 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | – | 91 | OL3492122M |
| 1975 | Book Club Associates | – | 91 | OL22196357M |
| 1971 | Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich | – | 113 | OL23267084M |
| 1971 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | – | 91 | OL5472360M |
| 1970 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 111 | OL23264111M |
| 1970 | Heinemann | – | 87 | OL19301522M |
| 1968 | Harcourt | – | 111 | OL7366037M |
| 1943 | Reynal & Hitchcock | – | 91 | OL6462595M |
| 1943 | Harcourt, Brace & World | – | 91 | OL16690339M |
| 1943 | Reynal & Hitchcock | – | 91 | OL23248210M |
| 1943 | Harcourt, Brace & World | – | 91 | OL5527222M |
| 1943 | Thorndike Press | – | 168 | OL3391645M |
| 1943 | harcourt, brace and world | – | 91 | OL24328342M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Le Petit Prince?
- About 96 pages: that is the median of 72 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 48 to 180 pages.
- How long does it take to read Le Petit Prince?
- About 1 h 42 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 4 days.
- How many words is Le Petit Prince?
- Roughly 26,000 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)).