Book · by Franz Kafka
How many pages is Metamorphosis?
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has a median of 78 pages across 91 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 70 to 100 pages.
Median pages
78
91 editions counted
Range
44–194
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
1.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
21k
at 275 words per page
How long will Metamorphosis take you?
Reading time
1 h 22 min
At 30 min a day
3 days
At 1 hour a day
2 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 | 102 | 2 | 1 h 48 min |
| Paperback | 84 | 20 | 1 h 29 min |
Editions counted
The 91 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 16 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 957 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Arcturus Publishing Limited | – | 95 | OL62588591M |
| 2024 | Penguin Random House SEA Pte Ltd | Hardcover | 60 | OL62602606M |
| 2022 | Penguin Books, Limited | Hardcover | 144 | OL37991176M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34185326M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34222371M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34246725M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 52 | OL34309817M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 71 | OL34216887M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34123503M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34288845M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34265703M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 71 | OL34349832M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34208210M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34213913M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 69 | OL34290254M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 71 | OL34309830M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 91 | OL34221373M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34252956M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 65 | OL34278901M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34344747M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 71 | OL34309945M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 74 | OL34331504M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34211932M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 71 | OL34307555M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 68 | OL29901702M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL30248790M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 74 | OL34145354M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 69 | OL30266460M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 57 | OL30198740M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL30078116M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 70 | OL34199085M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 69 | OL30267800M |
| 2020 | West Margin Press | – | 52 | OL30052109M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 47 | OL30063337M |
| 2019 | Arcturus Publishing | – | 96 | OL28937723M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 100 | OL29865548M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 100 | OL29865558M |
| 2018 | Plutón Ediciones | – | 192 | OL26500825M |
| 2017 | Arcturus Publishing | – | 128 | OL34549890M |
| 2017 | Legend Press | – | 76 | OL29344577M |
| 2016 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 126 | OL28805112M |
| 2016 | Joe Books Inc. | – | 160 | OL34064736M |
| 2015 | Joe Books Inc. | – | 160 | OL34070018M |
| 2015 | Oldcastle Books, Limited | – | 128 | OL28576315M |
| 2014 | Meirovich, Igal | – | 75 | OL34510746M |
| 2014 | W. W. Norton & Company | paperback | 128 | OL28367432M |
| 2014 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 160 | OL29675588M |
| 2013 | Rough Draft Printing | – | 104 | OL34493942M |
| 2013 | Start Publishing LLC | – | 49 | OL33992004M |
| 2011 | Simon & Brown | – | 54 | OL34461074M |
| 2011 | Tribeca Books | – | 74 | OL25553551M |
| 2010 | Simon & Brown | – | 54 | OL34454582M |
| 2010 | Hansa-Hewlett Pub. Co. | – | 94 | OL25076629M |
| 2009 | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | – | 119 | OL24580975M |
| 2009 | Classix Press | paperback | 44 | OL28267132M |
| 2009 | Arcturus | – | 127 | OL32125188M |
| 2009 | ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited | – | 88 | OL34470374M |
| 2008 | Editorium, The | – | 96 | OL34416176M |
| 2008 | Editorium, The | – | 100 | OL34428142M |
| 2007 | Filiquarian Publishing, LLC | – | 76 | OL34423194M |
| 2007 | Echo Library | Paperback | 60 | OL11681548M |
| 2007 | Oberon Books | Paperback | 96 | OL8908980M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 74 | OL10370647M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 94 | OL10416718M |
| 2006 | ICON Reference | Paperback | 80 | OL9315020M |
| 2006 | Icon Reference | Paperback | 120 | OL7652699M |
| 2006 | Waking Lion Press | Paperback | 94 | OL9733759M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 74 | OL10416505M |
| 2006 | Penguin | – | 112 | OL7358700M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 88 | OL10370432M |
| 2006 | Taylor & Francis Group | – | 126 | OL33624110M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 74 | OL10370539M |
| 2006 | ICON Reference | Paperback | 80 | OL9336857M |
| 2006 | ICON Group International, Inc. | Paperback | 78 | OL10416618M |
| 2006 | Waking Lion Press | Paperback | 98 | OL12505961M |
| 2005 | Prestwick House Inc. | Paperback | 80 | OL8779931M |
| 2004 | Bantam Books | – | 194 | OL22628731M |
| 2004 | Kessinger Publishing | Paperback | 48 | OL8481917M |
| 1997 | Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH | Paperback | 140 | OL9066614M |
| 1997 | Vitalis | – | 100 | OL32517574M |
| 1987 | Schocken | Paperback | 127 | OL7933458M |
| 1986 | Routledge | Paperback | 128 | OL10186781M |
| 1984 | Limited Editions Club | – | 61 | OL24499128M |
| 1968 | Schocken Books | – | 127 | OL5598298M |
| 1967 | Methuen | – | 90 | OL19040544M |
| 1960 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 96 | OL29559312M |
| 1948 | Schocken Books | – | 127 | OL19437759M |
| 1946 | The Vanguard press, inc. | – | 98 | OL6500155M |
| 1946 | Vanguard Press | – | 98 | OL19040577M |
| 1946 | Aeonian Press | – | 98 | OL21443780M |
| 1946 | Vanguard Press | – | 98 | OL18314342M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Metamorphosis?
- About 78 pages: that is the median of 91 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 44 to 194 pages.
- How long does it take to read Metamorphosis?
- About 1 h 22 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 3 days.
- How many words is Metamorphosis?
- Roughly 21,000 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)).