Book · by Vladimir Nabokov
How many pages is Pale Fire?
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov has a median of 315 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 225 to 315 pages.
How long will Pale Fire take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 59 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Penguin | – | 246 | OL62609541M |
| 1994 | The Arion Press | – | 288 | OL1227957M |
| 1994 | Arion Press | – | 284 | OL22948866M |
| 1992 | Knopf | – | 315 | OL1567622M |
| 1992 | Everyman's Library | – | 315 | OL19133954M |
| 1989 | Vintage Books | – | 315 | OL2061016M |
| 1985 | Berkley | – | 213 | OL7502507M |
| 1980 | Perigee Books | – | 315 | OL4422293M |
| 1977 | Berkley | – | 226 | OL7500898M |
| 1972 | Berkley Pub. | – | 224 | OL35738141M |
| 1968 | Berkley Books | – | 214 | OL24941485M |
| 1968 | Berkeley Pub. Co | – | 224 | OL20016335M |
| 1964 | Corgi Books | – | 352 | OL19411887M |
| 1963 | Lancer Books | – | 224 | OL13568614M |
| 1962 | Putnam | – | 320 | OL5847991M |
| 1962 | corgi books | – | 354 | OL58977402M |
| 1962 | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | – | 315 | OL16859142M |
| 1962 | Putnam | – | 315 | OL17755990M |
| 1962 | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | – | 315 | OL23333641M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Pale Fire?
- About 315 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 213 to 354 pages.
- How long does it take to read Pale Fire?
- About 5 h 33 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is Pale Fire?
- Roughly 87,000 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)).