Book · by Lemony Snicket
How many pages is The Bad Beginning?
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket has a median of 165 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 162 to 180 pages.
How long will The Bad Beginning 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 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 75 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Egmont Books, Limited | – | 192 | OL29535623M |
| 2017 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 192 | OL30593676M |
| 2010 | Egmont | – | 162 | OL32975663M |
| 2007 | HarperTrophy | – | 142 | OL24954625M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 176 | OL9237476M |
| 2004 | HarperKidsEntertainment | Hardcover | 176 | OL9235819M |
| 2003 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 192 | OL9232336M |
| 2002 | Chivers Large Print | Paperback | 168 | OL9480726M |
| 2001 | Egmont Books | – | 272 | OL22136955M |
| 2001 | Ted Smart | – | 162 | OL18646724M |
| 2001 | Egmont Books Ltd | Hardcover | 162 | OL7969323M |
| 2000 | Thorndike Press | – | 144 | OL6795161M |
| 1999 | HarperCollins Publishers | Paperback, Hardcover | 162 | OL22253596M |
| 1999 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 162 | OL23243635M |
| 1999 | HarperCollins | – | 162 | OL25426212M |
| 1999 | HarperCollins Publishers | Library binding | 176 | OL32777M |
More by Lemony Snicket
- 214 pagesThe Wide Window
- 192 pagesThe Reptile Room
- 194 pagesThe Miserable Mill
- 221 pagesThe Austere Academy
- 266 pagesThe Ersatz Elevator
- 256 pagesThe Vile Village
All 9 books by Lemony Snicket with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Bad Beginning?
- About 165 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 142 to 272 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Bad Beginning?
- About 2 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
- How many words is The Bad Beginning?
- Roughly 45,000 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).