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How many pages is Poems?

Poems by Oscar Wilde has a median of 246 pages across 32 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 212 to 336 pages.

Median pages
246
32 editions counted
Range
130–353
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
68k
at 275 words per page

How long will Poems take you?

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Reading time
4 h 20 min
At 30 min a day
9 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.

1002003001900195020001881: 236 pages1881: 230 pages1882: 234 pages1903: 216 pages1903: 296 pages1909: 345 pages1909: 320 pages1909: 339 pages1909: 320 pages1910: 353 pages1910: 353 pages1910: 353 pages1913: 353 pages1927: 275 pages1927: 336 pages1927: 320 pages1927: 336 pages1951: 192 pages1997: 212 pages1999: 240 pages2002: 208 pages2002: 130 pages2002: 208 pages2002: 130 pages2004: 252 pages2005: 252 pages2006: 220 pages2006: 212 pages2006: 220 pages2007: 212 pages2009: 212 pagesmedian 246
1002003001900195020001881: 236 pages1881: 230 pages1882: 234 pages1903: 216 pages1903: 296 pages1909: 345 pages1909: 320 pages1909: 339 pages1909: 320 pages1910: 353 pages1910: 353 pages1910: 353 pages1913: 353 pages1927: 275 pages1927: 336 pages1927: 320 pages1927: 336 pages1951: 192 pages1997: 212 pages1999: 240 pages2002: 208 pages2002: 130 pages2002: 208 pages2002: 130 pages2004: 252 pages2005: 252 pages2006: 220 pages2006: 212 pages2006: 220 pages2007: 212 pages2009: 212 pagesmedian 246
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition 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
Hardcover21643 h 48 min
Paperback21643 h 48 min

Editions counted

The 32 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 53 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2009Oxford University Press–212OL23991897M
2007IndyPublishHardcover212OL9900080M
2006AegypanHardcover220OL8898119M
2006IndyPublish.comPaperback212OL8492848M
2006AegypanPaperback220OL8898413M
20051st World LibraryHardcover252OL8491427M
20041st World LibraryPaperback252OL8881830M
2002IndyPublish.comHardcover208OL12325438M

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Questions

How many pages is Poems?
About 246 pages: that is the median of 32 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 130 to 353 pages.
How long does it take to read Poems?
About 4 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Poems?
Roughly 68,000 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)).