Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 1999
How many pages is Life, the Universe and Everything?
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams has a median of 216 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 188 to 227 pages.
How long will Life, the Universe and Everything 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 | 204 | 2 | 3 h 36 min |
| Paperback | 210 | 4 | 3 h 42 min |
| Mass market | 227 | 4 | 4 h |
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 65 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Pan Macmillan | – | 240 | OL29474404M |
| 2017 | GOLLANCZ | Paperback | 175 | OL26790006M |
| 2016 | Pan Books | paperback | 221 | OL37802522M |
| 2010 | Macmillan | paperback | 210 | OL28176177M |
| 2009 | Pan Books | paperback | 210 | OL28023779M |
| 2005 | Del Rey Books | – | 232 | OL3434028M |
| 2005 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 232 | OL9537124M |
| 1994 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 208 | OL34412327M |
| 1987 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 227 | OL24212506M |
| 1983 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 227 | OL32833653M |
| 1982 | Pan Books | Mass Market Paperback | 162 | OL22126600M |
| 1982 | Barker | – | 161 | OL16811791M |
| 1982 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 227 | OL25418024M |
| 1982 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 182 | OL18848267M |
More by Douglas Adams
- 215 pagesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 815 pagesThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 225 pagesThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- 306 pagesDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- 196 pagesSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- 282 pagesThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
All 9 books by Douglas Adams with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Life, the Universe and Everything?
- About 216 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 161 to 240 pages.
- How long does it take to read Life, the Universe and Everything?
- About 3 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is Life, the Universe and Everything?
- Roughly 59,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).