Book · by Margaret Atwood
How many pages is Surfacing?
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood has a median of 199 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 192 to 224 pages.
How long will Surfacing 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 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 63 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 256 | OL33438210M |
| 2005 | McClelland & Stewart | – | 195 | OL22729589M |
| 1999 | M&S | – | 205 | OL21657752M |
| 1998 | Anchor Books | – | 199 | OL696314M |
| 1996 | Bantam Books | – | 199 | OL800277M |
| 1992 | Bloomsbury Pub. | – | 282 | OL14658690M |
| 1990 | Fawcett Crest | – | 231 | OL24221068M |
| 1983 | General Pub. Co. | – | 208 | OL24869288M |
| 1983 | General Publishing | – | 208 | OL20684867M |
| 1979 | Virago | – | 186 | OL15571966M |
| 1977 | PaperJacks | – | 192 | OL22276152M |
| 1973 | Wildwood House | – | 192 | OL15112722M |
| 1973 | Deutsch | – | 192 | OL14969083M |
| 1973 | Simon and Schuster | – | 224 | OL5304496M |
| 1972 | Fawcett Popular Library | – | 224 | OL15178458M |
| 1972 | Andre Deutsch | – | 192 | OL5475715M |
| 1972 | McClelland and Stewart | – | 192 | OL5450172M |
More by Margaret Atwood
- 336 pagesThe Handmaid's Tale
- 432 pagesThe Testaments
- 386 pagesOryx and Crake
- 545 pagesalias Grace
- 641 pagesThe Blind Assassin
- 199 pagesThe Penelopiad
All 10 books by Margaret Atwood with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Surfacing?
- About 199 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 186 to 282 pages.
- How long does it take to read Surfacing?
- About 3 h 30 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is Surfacing?
- Roughly 55,000 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)).