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How many pages is Tales from Earthsea?

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin has a median of 317 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 300 to 332 pages.

Median pages
317
6 editions counted
Range
280–336
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
87k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Tales from Earthsea take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
5 h 35 min
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

2803003203402000200220042001: 296 pages2001: 320 pages2002: 336 pages2002: 314 pages2003: 336 pages2003: 280 pagesmedian 317
2803003203402000200220042001: 296 pages2001: 320 pages2002: 336 pages2002: 314 pages2003: 336 pages2003: 280 pagesmedian 317
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 27 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2003Tandem Library–336OL7600714M
2003Ace–280OL7524237M
2002Ace Trade–336OL7524175M
2002Ace BooksPaperback314OL3955606M
2001Harcourt–296OL3940470M
2001Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company–320OL29590377M

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Questions

How many pages is Tales from Earthsea?
About 317 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 280 to 336 pages.
How long does it take to read Tales from Earthsea?
About 5 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is Tales from Earthsea?
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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).