Book · by Mark Twain
How many pages is Life on the Mississippi?
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain has a median of 465 pages across 75 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 384 to 526 pages.
Median pages
465
75 editions counted
Range
232–624
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.0h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
128k
at 275 words per page
How long will Life on the Mississippi take you?
Reading time
8 h 57 min
At 30 min a day
18 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.
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 | 481 | 5 | 9 h 16 min |
| Paperback | 378 | 4 | 7 h 17 min |
| Mass market | 320 | 3 | 6 h 10 min |
Editions counted
The 75 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 157 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 272 | OL29903696M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 279 | OL29978364M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 340 | OL29906757M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 433 | OL30329250M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 273 | OL30221001M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 496 | OL30357896M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 497 | OL29934048M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 268 | OL30026481M |
| 2010 | Oxford Unviversity Press | – | 624 | OL24099952M |
| 2009 | Signet Classics | – | 373 | OL23683392M |
| 2007 | Modern Library | – | 416 | OL7427548M |
| 2006 | Echo Library | Paperback | 232 | OL8411053M |
| 2006 | Echo Library | Paperback | 452 | OL8411510M |
| 2006 | 1st World Library | Hardcover | 552 | OL8491417M |
| 2006 | Hesperides Press | Paperback | 588 | OL8409211M |
| 2004 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | 544 | OL7978267M |
| 2002 | Modern Library | – | 388 | OL3558366M |
| 2001 | Signet Classic | – | 359 | OL3946424M |
| 2000 | Dover Publications | Paperback | 304 | OL7638261M |
| 2000 | HarperCollins | – | 608 | OL7285535M |
| 2000 | Blue Unicorn Editions | Mass Market Paperback | 400 | OL12311566M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 312 | OL7973801M |
| 1998 | North Books | Hardcover | 443 | OL12286504M |
| 1996 | Oxford Unviversity Press | – | 624 | OL979599M |
| 1994 | Modern Library | Hardcover | 481 | OL7699588M |
| 1991 | Vintage Books/The Library of America | – | 415 | OL1888964M |
| 1990 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 482 | OL7383677M |
| 1987 | Reader's Digest Association | – | 382 | OL2411435M |
| 1984 | Penguin Books | – | 450 | OL2839396M |
| 1983 | Bantam Classics | Mass Market Paperback | 312 | OL7820334M |
| 1983 | Bantam Classics | Mass Market Paperback | 320 | OL7820474M |
| 1982 | Franklin Library | – | 460 | OL3207782M |
| 1981 | Bantam Books | – | 312 | OL18194037M |
| 1980 | New American Library | – | 384 | OL13545440M |
| 1968 | Dodd, Mead | – | 437 | OL5602975M |
| 1967 | Dillon Press | – | 441 | OL5985441M |
| 1965 | Harper & Row | – | 364 | OL5938222M |
| 1962 | Oxford University Press | – | 429 | OL5866767M |
| 1961 | Signet Classics | – | 384 | OL7576957M |
| 1961 | New American Library | – | 382 | OL21332596M |
| 1959 | Heritage Press | – | 418 | OL5777174M |
| 1957 | Sagamore Press | – | 341 | OL6226097M |
| 1951 | Harper & Row | – | 527 | OL13713764M |
| 1951 | Harper and Brothers | – | 527 | OL23268152M |
| 1950 | Harper | – | 526 | OL6068242M |
| 1944 | The Limited Editions Club | – | 418 | OL6468625M |
| 1944 | The Heritage Press | – | 418 | OL27791405M |
| 1935 | Harper & Brothers | – | 298 | OL6320197M |
| 1927 | Harper & Brothers | – | 526 | OL26885742M |
| 1923 | Harper | – | 527 | OL27790099M |
| 1923 | Gabriel Wells | – | 526 | OL1598299M |
| 1917 | Harper & Row | – | 526 | OL21332582M |
| 1917 | Harper & Brothers | – | 526 | OL7213151M |
| 1917 | Harper & Row | – | 526 | OL7219772M |
| 1917 | Harper | – | 481 | OL26576525M |
| 1917 | Harper | – | 526 | OL24151939M |
| 1917 | Harper & Brothers | – | 526 | OL6710196M |
| 1911 | Harper | – | 481 | OL16337151M |
| 1906 | Harper & Brothers | – | 481 | OL25071877M |
| 1906 | Harper & Brothers | – | 481 | OL7163604M |
| 1905 | Harper & Brothers Publishers | – | 481 | OL31945655M |
| 1903 | Wildside Press | – | 527 | OL24965749M |
| 1903 | Harper & Brothers | – | 465 | OL6930750M |
| 1903 | Harper | – | 481 | OL17896348M |
| 1899 | Harper & Bros. | – | 465 | OL7241279M |
| 1899 | Harper & Brother Publishers | – | 465 | OL27489769M |
| 1883 | Dawson | – | 547 | OL26557088M |
| 1883 | Dawson | – | 547 | OL7178284M |
| 1883 | J. R. Osgood | – | 624 | OL17860982M |
| 1883 | Harper & Brothers | – | 465 | OL24151154M |
| 1883 | J. R. Osgood | – | 624 | OL24179711M |
| 1883 | James R. Osgood and Co. | – | 624 | OL6932625M |
| 1883 | Chatto & Windus | – | 561 | OL6325735M |
| 1883 | Chatto & Windus | – | 561 | OL16417740M |
| 1883 | Dawson Brothers | – | 547 | OL24499160M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Life on the Mississippi?
- About 465 pages: that is the median of 75 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 232 to 624 pages.
- How long does it take to read Life on the Mississippi?
- About 8 h 57 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
- How many words is Life on the Mississippi?
- Roughly 128,000 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)).