Book · by Arthur Golden · first published 1997
How many pages is Memoirs of a Geisha?
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden has a median of 503 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 434 to 656 pages.
How long will Memoirs of a Geisha 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 503 | 3 | 8 h 52 min |
| Mass market | 512 | 3 | 9 h 02 min |
Editions counted
The 21 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 103 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 512 | OL29543512M |
| 2006 | Random House Large Print | Paperback | 768 | OL7914800M |
| 2006 | Penguin Random House | – | 448 | OL34414671M |
| 2005 | Seal Books | Mass Market Paperback | 512 | OL8075152M |
| 2005 | Vintage | Mass Market Paperback | 512 | OL8364566M |
| 2005 | Random House Large Print | – | 758 | OL3416768M |
| 2005 | Vintage | Paperback | 434 | OL9315640M |
| 2005 | Vintage | Mass Market Paperback | 656 | OL9358953M |
| 2000 | Chatto & Windus | – | 434 | OL18448477M |
| 2000 | Penguin Random House | – | 512 | OL34408717M |
| 2000 | Vintage Contemporaries | paperback | 503 | OL28039518M |
| 1999 | Vintage Canada | – | 434 | OL19075981M |
| 1999 | Windsor Publications | – | 768 | OL34424514M |
| 1999 | Vintage Books | – | 434 | OL366083M |
| 1999 | Paragon House Publishers | – | 768 | OL34426507M |
| 1998 | G.K. Hall | – | 699 | OL354045M |
| 1997 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 418 | OL58885211M |
| 1997 | Penguin Random House | – | 400 | OL34411677M |
| 1997 | Alfred a Knopf Inc | – | 454 | OL40285510M |
| 1997 | Chatto & Windus | – | 434 | OL18448483M |
| 1997 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 434 | OL710471M |
Questions
- How many pages is Memoirs of a Geisha?
- About 503 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 400 to 768 pages.
- How long does it take to read Memoirs of a Geisha?
- About 8 h 52 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
- How many words is Memoirs of a Geisha?
- Roughly 138,000 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)).