Book · by Patrick Süskind
How many pages is Perfume?
Perfume by Patrick Süskind has a median of 272 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 263 to 304 pages.
Median pages
272
14 editions counted
Range
255–361
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
75k
at 275 words per page
How long will Perfume take you?
Reading time
4 h 48 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days
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 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 106 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Vintage | Paperback | 272 | OL9629917M |
| 2001 | Vintage International | – | 255 | OL3962435M |
| 2001 | Vintage International | – | 255 | OL24833372M |
| 1994 | Bloomsbury Classics | – | 284 | OL17250955M |
| 1992 | Penguin | – | 263 | OL21144118M |
| 1992 | Penguin | – | 272 | OL9303972M |
| 1991 | Pocket Books | – | 310 | OL19694258M |
| 1987 | Penguin Books | – | 263 | OL15550071M |
| 1987 | ISIS Large Print | – | 361 | OL17427662M |
| 1987 | ABC-CLIO | – | 361 | OL2373086M |
| 1987 | ABC-CLIO | Hardcover | 361 | OL8599108M |
| 1987 | Penguin | – | 263 | OL22123184M |
| 1986 | Knopf | – | 272 | OL7461088M |
| 1986 | A.A. Knopf | – | 255 | OL2740546M |
Questions
- How many pages is Perfume?
- About 272 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 255 to 361 pages.
- How long does it take to read Perfume?
- About 4 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is Perfume?
- Roughly 75,000 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)).