Book · by Jack Kerouac · first published 1996
How many pages is On The Road?
On The Road by Jack Kerouac has a median of 307 pages across 38 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 286 to 310 pages.
How long will On The Road 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 | 314 | 2 | 5 h 32 min |
| Paperback | 290 | 3 | 5 h 07 min |
Editions counted
The 38 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 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 155 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 288 | OL28690566M |
| 2017 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 238 | OL56208496M |
| 2011 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 286 | OL28464068M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 416 | OL28455642M |
| 2007 | Viking Adult | Hardcover | 320 | OL9891435M |
| 2007 | Viking | – | 408 | OL22759336M |
| 2005 | Penguin Books | – | 307 | OL23100017M |
| 2003 | Penguin Books | – | 307 | OL18141201M |
| 2002 | Penguin Classics | – | 352 | OL7361002M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 280 | OL22464055M |
| 1999 | Penguin Books | – | 293 | OL16949761M |
| 1999 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | – | 304 | OL7352235M |
| 1999 | Rebound by Sagebrush | Library binding | 307 | OL8102549M |
| 1998 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 290 | OL7351914M |
| 1997 | Viking | – | 307 | OL667183M |
| 1991 | Penguin Books | – | 310 | OL1535275M |
| 1991 | Viking Penguin Inc | – | 320 | OL7349637M |
| 1987 | Penguin (Non-Classics) | Paperback | 296 | OL9300782M |
| 1985 | New American Library | – | 254 | OL24936359M |
| 1985 | New American Library | Unknown Binding | 254 | OL9227820M |
| 1981 | Plethron | – | 376 | OL21779069M |
| 1979 | Penguin Books | – | 605 | OL4724583M |
| 1979 | Penguin | – | 605 | OL43131943M |
| 1976 | Penguin Books | – | 310 | OL23377023M |
| 1976 | Penguin Books | – | 310 | OL16836533M |
| 1975 | Buccaneer Books | – | 310 | OL1630380M |
| 1972 | Penguin Books | – | 290 | OL19630578M |
| 1965 | Viking Press | – | 310 | OL22327160M |
| 1961 | Pan Books | – | 319 | OL61734572M |
| 1959 | Viking Press | – | 310 | OL22790349M |
| 1958 | Andre Deutsch | – | 310 | OL59509515M |
| 1958 | Viking Press | – | 310 | OL13524777M |
| 1957 | New American Library | – | 254 | OL18194447M |
| 1957 | The Viking Press | – | 258 | OL58971341M |
| 1957 | Viking Press | – | 310 | OL6223748M |
| 1957 | The New American Library, Inc. | – | 262 | OL58723189M |
| 1957 | Published by the New American Library | – | 254 | OL26339265M |
| 1957 | Penguin | – | 280 | OL22820156M |
Questions
- How many pages is On The Road?
- About 307 pages: that is the median of 38 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 238 to 605 pages.
- How long does it take to read On The Road?
- About 5 h 25 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is On The Road?
- Roughly 84,000 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)).