Book · by Roald Dahl
How many pages is The BFG?
The BFG by Roald Dahl has a median of 209 pages across 29 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 207 to 224 pages.
How long will The BFG take you?
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 | 248 | 2 | 4 h 22 min |
| Paperback | 224 | 3 | 3 h 57 min |
Editions counted
The 29 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 155 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Bound to Stay Bound Books | – | 207 | OL53341225M |
| 2016 | Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | – | 209 | OL36656501M |
| 2016 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 176 | OL28598953M |
| 2016 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 224 | OL28592332M |
| 2016 | Penguin Books | – | 240 | OL28597237M |
| 2016 | Puffin Books | paperback | 224 | OL32937619M |
| 2007 | Puffin | Paperback | 208 | OL9315797M |
| 2007 | Puffin Books | Paperback | 224 | OL10099425M |
| 2006 | HarperChildrensAudio | – | 416 | OL7283098M |
| 2002 | CAPE JONATHAN CHILDR | – | 276 | OL7414598M |
| 1999 | Puffin Books | – | 192 | OL7359360M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 207 | OL9895831M |
| 1998 | Puffin | – | 208 | OL7359322M |
| 1997 | Scholastic | – | 207 | OL24372927M |
| 1997 | Scholastic | – | 207 | OL16198240M |
| 1994 | Puffin Books | – | 207 | OL23046633M |
| 1993 | Everyman's Library | – | 243 | OL22534959M |
| 1993 | Knopf | – | 243 | OL1413308M |
| 1989 | Puffin | – | 208 | OL7353645M |
| 1984 | Flamingo | – | 208 | OL7353258M |
| 1984 | Puffin in association with Cape | – | 207 | OL20662298M |
| 1984 | Puffin Books | – | 208 | OL22145976M |
| 1983 | Jonathan Cape | – | 210 | OL58594272M |
| 1982 | The Trumpet Club | – | 208 | OL7522945M |
| 1982 | Scholastic Inc. | – | 210 | OL58678256M |
| 1982 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | – | 219 | OL3495546M |
| 1982 | Windrush | Hardcover | 288 | OL11948467M |
| 1982 | Cape | – | 224 | OL22014048M |
| 1982 | Cape | – | 224 | OL19868333M |
More by Roald Dahl
- 240 pagesMatilda
- 162 pagesCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
- 144 pagesJames and the Giant Peach
- 90 pagesFantastic Mr Fox
- 208 pagesThe Witches
- 80 pagesThe Twits
All 21 books by Roald Dahl with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The BFG?
- About 209 pages: that is the median of 29 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 176 to 416 pages.
- How long does it take to read The BFG?
- About 3 h 41 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is The BFG?
- Roughly 57,000 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)).