Book · by William Golding · first published 2006
How many pages is Lord of the Flies?
Lord of the Flies by William Golding has a median of 243 pages across 46 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 196 to 264 pages.
How long will Lord of the Flies 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 | 225 | 2 | 3 h 58 min |
| Paperback | 256 | 3 | 4 h 31 min |
Editions counted
The 46 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 192 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Faber & Faber, Limited | – | 320 | OL33934284M |
| 2016 | Penguin Classics | paperback | 336 | OL32030105M |
| 2013 | Faber & Faber, Limited | – | 368 | OL28485483M |
| 2012 | Faber & Faber, Limited | – | 176 | OL29014897M |
| 2012 | Faber & Faber, Limited | – | 176 | OL29122756M |
| 2011 | Faber & Faber | Paperback | 256 | OL37821575M |
| 2011 | Perigee | Hardcover | 202 | OL25325003M |
| 2011 | Penguin Young Readers Group | – | 304 | OL34081379M |
| 2004 | Faber and Faber | – | 216 | OL17147952M |
| 2003 | Berkley | – | 315 | OL3688432M |
| 2002 | Faber | – | 225 | OL22069515M |
| 2001 | Faber and Faber | – | 264 | OL22050848M |
| 1999 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | – | 192 | OL7352237M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | Unknown Binding | 192 | OL8459554M |
| 1997 | Riverhead Books | paperback | 256 | OL657022M |
| 1994 | Chivers | – | 322 | OL22946016M |
| 1988 | Perigee Trade | – | 336 | OL7471811M |
| 1983 | Perigee Books | – | 291 | OL20233613M |
| 1980 | Guild Publishing | – | 225 | OL37822865M |
| 1977 | Lythway Press | – | 322 | OL22364623M |
| 1975 | Aeonian Press | – | 190 | OL17934157M |
| 1975 | National Aid to Visually Handicapped | Unknown Binding | 443 | OL11272568M |
| 1971 | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | – | 243 | OL18504583M |
| 1967 | Coward-McCann | – | 243 | OL21070454M |
| 1964 | Penguin Books in association with Faber & Faber | – | 192 | OL18907409M |
| 1964 | Putnam | – | 291 | OL22404426M |
| 1963 | Faber and Faber | – | 248 | OL16157963M |
| 1962 | Coward-McCann | – | 243 | OL5866901M |
| 1962 | Faber | – | 263 | OL18064975M |
| 1962 | Faber and Faber | – | 248 | OL44916500M |
| 1962 | Faber and Faber | – | 243 | OL19741768M |
| 1961 | Penguin Books | – | 192 | OL43025675M |
| 1960 | Penguin Books | – | 192 | OL21481301M |
| 1960 | Penguin Books | – | 192 | OL26536145M |
| 1959 | Capricorn Books | – | 256 | OL6273914M |
| 1959 | Capricorn Books | – | 194 | OL47854235M |
| 1959 | Capricorn Books | – | 256 | OL23249031M |
| 1959 | Capricorn Books | – | 192 | OL18936241M |
| 1959 | Capricorn Books | – | 192 | OL21495301M |
| 1958 | Faber and Faber | – | 223 | OL21063580M |
| 1958 | Faber | – | 248 | OL18875016M |
| 1955 | Coward-McCann | – | 243 | OL6178043M |
| 1954 | Perigee | – | 208 | OL17196313M |
| 1954 | Faber & Faber, | Hardcover | 248 | OL7855575M |
| 1954 | Faber and Faber | – | 248 | OL6183579M |
| 1954 | Faber & Faber | – | 223 | OL20345466M |
Questions
- How many pages is Lord of the Flies?
- About 243 pages: that is the median of 46 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 176 to 443 pages.
- How long does it take to read Lord of the Flies?
- About 4 h 17 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is Lord of the Flies?
- Roughly 67,000 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)).