Book · by Larry McMurtry · first published 1985
How many pages is Lonesome Dove?
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry has a median of 945 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 858 to 945 pages.
How long will Lonesome Dove 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 | 857 | 3 | 15 h 06 min |
| Paperback | 861 | 2 | 15 h 11 min |
| Mass market | 960 | 3 | 16 h 55 min |
Editions counted
The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 26 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | Paperback | 858 | OL25050702M |
| 2005 | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | Paperback | 864 | OL26718689M |
| 2002 | Pocket Books | School & Library Binding | 945 | OL8188748M |
| 2000 | Simon & Schuster | Hardcover | 857 | OL6901649M |
| 1993 | Mass Market Paperback | 960 | OL7665416M | |
| 1990 | Pan | – | 945 | OL20174882M |
| 1989 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 945 | OL7660473M |
| 1988 | Mass Market Paperback | 960 | OL7662107M | |
| 1986 | Pocket Books | – | 945 | OL21594792M |
| 1985 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 843 | OL3021983M |
| 1985 | Simon and Schuster | – | 821 | OL22359093M |
Questions
- How many pages is Lonesome Dove?
- About 945 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 821 to 960 pages.
- How long does it take to read Lonesome Dove?
- About 16 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 34 days.
- How many words is Lonesome Dove?
- Roughly 260,000 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)).