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How many pages is Orthodoxy?

Orthodoxy by Gilbert Keith Chesterton has a median of 156 pages across 270 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 124 to 176 pages.

Median pages
156
270 editions counted
Range
72–336
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.0h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
43k
at 275 words per page

How long will Orthodoxy take you?

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Reading time
3 h
At 30 min a day
7 days
At 1 hour a day
4 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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Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

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
Hardcover15062 h 53 min
Paperback156273 h

Editions counted

The 270 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 6 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 551 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2024Innovate Book Publisher–118OL57779785M
2020Dover Publications, Incorporated–160OL29469933M
2020Dover Publications, Incorporated–160OL30241279M
2020HardPress–318OL30296835M
2020Independently Published–168OL30335418M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–156OL55095487M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–156OL55367989M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–156OL55182320M

More by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Questions

How many pages is Orthodoxy?
About 156 pages: that is the median of 270 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 72 to 336 pages.
How long does it take to read Orthodoxy?
About 3 h at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is Orthodoxy?
Roughly 43,000 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)).