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How many pages is Nicomachean Ethics?

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle has a median of 347 pages across 151 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 290 to 360 pages.

Median pages
347
151 editions counted
Range
159–680
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.7h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
95k
at 275 words per page

How long will Nicomachean Ethics take you?

Starts at the non-fiction average of 238 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
6 h 41 min
At 30 min a day
14 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

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200400600190020001834: 350 pages1847: 379 pages1850: 347 pages1850: 347 pages1853: 347 pages1865: 347 pages1865: 317 pages1865: 317 pages1867: 347 pages1869: 393 pages1869: 393 pages1869: 393 pages1869: 393 pages1871: 347 pages1872: 159 pages1879: 328 pages1879: 328 pages1879: 328 pages1881: 354 pages1881: 354 pages1886: 354 pages1886: 354 pages1886: 354 pages1888: 347 pages1888: 347 pages1890: 233 pages1890: 290 pages1890: 333 pages1890: 333 pages1890: 300 pages1892: 352 pages1892: 352 pages1892: 352 pages1893: 359 pages1895: 347 pages1895: 347 pages1897: 300 pages1897: 352 pages1898: 359 pages1898: 359 pages1898: 359 pages1900: 317 pages1906: 359 pages1906: 359 pages1907: 347 pages1908: 352 pages1909: 359 pages1909: 359 pages1909: 359 pages1909: 359 pages1910: 317 pages1911: 290 pages1911: 290 pages1911: 290 pages1912: 352 pages1914: 347 pages1915: 290 pages1920: 359 pages1920: 352 pages1920: 352 pages1923: 352 pages1925: 359 pages1925: 290 pages1925: 254 pages1926: 649 pages1927: 352 pages1930: 290 pages1930: 352 pages1934: 649 pages1934: 680 pages1934: 650 pages1934: 352 pages1939: 650 pages1942: 290 pages1947: 649 pages1947: 290 pages1950: 310 pages1954: 284 pages1954: 283 pages1954: 284 pages1954: 283 pages1955: 319 pages1955: 320 pages1959: 319 pages1959: 319 pages1961: 283 pages1961: 283 pages1962: 316 pages1962: 316 pages1962: 316 pages1962: 649 pages1962: 316 pages1963: 283 pages1967: 320 pages1968: 649 pages1968: 649 pages1973: 214 pages1975: 372 pages1975: 650 pages1976: 383 pages1980: 318 pages1980: 372 pages1984: 372 pages1984: 372 pages1985: 441 pages1985: 441 pages1987: 358 pages1996: 287 pages1997: 287 pages1998: 283 pages1998: 239 pages1998: 229 pages1999: 254 pages1999: 352 pages1999: 392 pages1999: 360 pages1999: 254 pages1999: 260 pages2000: 360 pages2000: 213 pages2001: 552 pages2002: 214 pages2002: 468 pages2002: 214 pages2003: 649 pages2003: 400 pages2004: 329 pages2005: 270 pages2005: 619 pages2005: 635 pages2006: 472 pages2006: 258 pages2006: 272 pages2006: 456 pages2006: 336 pages2007: 184 pages2007: 299 pages2007: 274 pages2009: 336 pages2011: 339 pages2011: 244 pages2012: 368 pages2014: 504 pages2014: 504 pages2019: 480 pages2019: 480 pages2020: 528 pages2021: 287 pagesmedian 347
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 3 editions without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover50449 h 42 min
Paperback316156 h 05 min

Editions counted

The 151 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 7 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 416 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–287OL34306714M
2020Penguin Books, Limited–528OL29396477M
2019Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated–480OL34664680M
2019Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.paperback480OL30089409M
2014Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated–504OL34496012M
2014Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated–504OL28531217M
2012University of Chicago Press–368OL34601100M
2011University of Chicago Press–339OL25136573M

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Questions

How many pages is Nicomachean Ethics?
About 347 pages: that is the median of 151 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 159 to 680 pages.
How long does it take to read Nicomachean Ethics?
About 6 h 41 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
How many words is Nicomachean Ethics?
Roughly 95,000 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)).