Book · by Agatha Christie
How many pages is The Big Four?
The Big Four by Agatha Christie has a median of 214 pages across 28 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 177 to 276 pages.
How long will The Big Four 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 | 288 | 3 | 5 h 05 min |
| Paperback | 160 | 4 | 2 h 49 min |
Editions counted
The 28 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 121 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Paper and Pen | – | 294 | OL56893312M |
| 2021 | William Morrow | paperback | 240 | OL32437074M |
| 2016 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 192 | OL34538558M |
| 2011 | Center Point Pub. | – | 256 | OL25170225M |
| 2011 | Harper | hardcover | 224 | OL27443557M |
| 2006 | W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. | hardcover | 288 | OL36631446M |
| 2001 | Berkley | – | 208 | OL7502676M |
| 1997 | Collins Crime | – | 224 | OL7255921M |
| 1990 | Ulverscroft Large Print | Hardcover | 312 | OL9681943M |
| 1984 | Berkley Books | – | 198 | OL3668442M |
| 1984 | Fontana/Collins | – | 221 | OL18145496M |
| 1980 | Pan Books | Paperback | 160 | OL10488110M |
| 1978 | Fontana | Paperback | 160 | OL7257892M |
| 1978 | Dell | – | 173 | OL24939577M |
| 1975 | Dell Publishing | – | 180 | OL46857696M |
| 1975 | Librairie des Champs-Elysees | – | 258 | OL51012136M |
| 1974 | Ulverscroft | – | 311 | OL22997997M |
| 1972 | Dell | Mass Market Paperback | 173 | OL28317557M |
| 1968 | Dell | – | 178 | OL40281005M |
| 1965 | Collins | – | 159 | OL18806243M |
| 1961 | Pan Books Ltd. | – | 162 | OL58597958M |
| 1940 | Avon pocket-size books | – | 276 | OL16643789M |
| 1936 | Collins | – | 281 | OL16062445M |
| 1927 | Dodd, Mead & company | – | 276 | OL6704933M |
| 1927 | – | – | 178 | OL58597951M |
| 1927 | W. Collins sons & co., ltd. | – | 281 | OL6703059M |
| 1927 | Avon Book Division | Paperback | 126 | OL26456462M |
| – | Planet Three Publishing Network. | – | 179 | OL18636508M |
More by Agatha Christie
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- 307 pagesDeath on the Nile
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Questions
- How many pages is The Big Four?
- About 214 pages: that is the median of 28 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 126 to 312 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Big Four?
- About 3 h 47 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 Big Four?
- Roughly 59,000 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)).