Book · by Mark Twain
How many pages is Roughing It?
Roughing It by Mark Twain has a median of 591 pages across 74 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 465 to 603 pages.
Median pages
591
74 editions counted
Range
308–1,112
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
10h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
163k
at 275 words per page
How long will Roughing It take you?
Reading time
10 h 25 min
At 30 min a day
21 days
At 1 hour a day
11 days
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 | 421 | 7 | 7 h 25 min |
| Paperback | 448 | 5 | 7 h 54 min |
Editions counted
The 74 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 5 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 408 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 775 | OL34278952M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL34280082M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 600 | OL34312482M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 595 | OL34362328M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL34342064M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 606 | OL34341294M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 595 | OL34310314M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL34326137M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 485 | OL34213184M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 597 | OL34300401M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 597 | OL34358425M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 597 | OL34295831M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 396 | OL34207219M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL34283508M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 595 | OL34301299M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 474 | OL34245339M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL34360377M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL30335432M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 480 | OL30040503M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 493 | OL30325224M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 595 | OL34360782M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL30346606M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL34145519M |
| 2020 | Aberdeen Press | – | 493 | OL34263913M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 603 | OL30054272M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 324 | OL34145840M |
| 2017 | Gibbs Smith, Publisher | – | 424 | OL28629545M |
| 2014 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 480 | OL33540089M |
| 2014 | Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated | – | 592 | OL29680647M |
| 2014 | Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated | – | 592 | OL28516110M |
| 2011 | University of California Press | – | 888 | OL29200292M |
| 2011 | University of California Press | – | 888 | OL29609595M |
| 2011 | University of California Press | – | 888 | OL29054020M |
| 2008 | Signet Classics | – | 462 | OL23606995M |
| 2006 | Aegypan | Hardcover | 376 | OL12495935M |
| 2006 | Aegypan | Paperback | 376 | OL8898028M |
| 2004 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | 308 | OL7978198M |
| 2004 | Wildside Press | Paperback | 308 | OL7978197M |
| 2004 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | 344 | OL7978200M |
| 2003 | Dover Publications | – | 336 | OL3683735M |
| 2003 | Pocket Books | – | 515 | OL3703300M |
| 2002 | University of California Press | Paperback | 885 | OL7711717M |
| 2001 | Konemann | Hardcover | 530 | OL8948127M |
| 2000 | University of California Press | – | 853 | OL35672845M |
| 1996 | Oxford University Press | – | 591 | OL975273M |
| 1995 | University of California Press | – | 853 | OL794218M |
| 1994 | University of California Press | Hardcover | 1,111 | OL7709898M |
| 1994 | Reader's Digest Association | Hardcover | 421 | OL1124722M |
| 1994 | University of California Press | – | 1,112 | OL29603132M |
| 1993 | University of California Press | – | 1,072 | OL1413724M |
| 1988 | Buccaneer Books | Hardcover | 592 | OL8343938M |
| 1982 | Time-Life Books | – | 591 | OL3781671M |
| 1981 | Penguin | – | 590 | OL4264708M |
| 1972 | Limited Editions Club | – | 445 | OL5342841M |
| 1972 | Univ of California Pr | Paperback | 684 | OL7708315M |
| 1962 | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | – | 333 | OL16215012M |
| 1962 | Signet Classics | Paperback | 448 | OL10274227M |
| 1962 | New American Library | – | 448 | OL13545967M |
| 1962 | New American Library | – | 448 | OL7577112M |
| 1959 | Harper | – | 329 | OL6263880M |
| 1953 | Rinehart & Co., Inc. | – | 333 | OL16774407M |
| 1900 | American Publishing Company | – | 591 | OL43613690M |
| 1899 | Harper | – | 348 | OL43662376M |
| 1893 | American publishing companyy | – | 591 | OL22091497M |
| 1891 | American publishing company | – | 591 | OL6986327M |
| 1891 | American publishing company | – | 591 | OL24776283M |
| 1891 | American publishing company | – | 591 | OL24832581M |
| 1886 | American publishing company | – | 591 | OL25389615M |
| 1875 | American publishing company | – | 591 | OL7047295M |
| 1872 | American publishing company | – | 591 | OL21834750M |
| 1872 | American Publishing Company | – | 591 | OL44680486M |
| 1872 | American Publishing Co. | – | 591 | OL7213286M |
| 1872 | American Publishing Company | – | 591 | OL23330798M |
| 1872 | American Pub. Co. | – | 591 | OL6970936M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Roughing It?
- About 591 pages: that is the median of 74 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 308 to 1,112 pages.
- How long does it take to read Roughing It?
- About 10 h 25 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 21 days.
- How many words is Roughing It?
- Roughly 163,000 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)).