Book · by Raymond Chandler · first published 1939
How many pages is The Big Sleep?
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler has a median of 231 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 216 to 262 pages.
How long will The Big Sleep 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 25 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 116 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 272 | OL28469923M |
| 2014 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 256 | OL28543255M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 272 | OL40365003M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 264 | OL28439567M |
| 2004 | Penguin | – | 262 | OL39798510M |
| 2002 | ImPress Mystery | – | 261 | OL3555189M |
| 2002 | Center Point | – | 240 | OL3952074M |
| 1992 | Chivers | – | 323 | OL22296493M |
| 1992 | Vintage Books | – | 231 | OL1566844M |
| 1989 | North Point Press | – | 249 | OL15155437M |
| 1988 | H. Hamilton | – | 190 | OL13900558M |
| 1986 | Arion Press | – | 249 | OL2333078M |
| 1979 | Pan Books | – | 189 | OL14992310M |
| 1978 | Penguin | – | 220 | OL14943922M |
| 1976 | Vintage Books | – | 216 | OL4882720M |
| 1975 | Ballantine Books | – | 216 | OL13537033M |
| 1973 | Ballatine Books | – | 216 | OL21957879M |
| 1967 | Penguin | Paperback | 220 | OL16230363M |
| 1966 | – | – | 219 | OL43766493M |
| 1966 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 219 | OL14673395M |
| 1950 | Pocket Books | – | 214 | OL22930226M |
| 1943 | The Avon Book Company | – | 170 | OL6468083M |
| 1939 | Hamilton | – | 190 | OL22431414M |
| 1939 | H. Hamilton | – | 301 | OL21383823M |
| 1939 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 277 | OL6382625M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Big Sleep?
- About 231 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 170 to 323 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Big Sleep?
- About 4 h 04 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is The Big Sleep?
- Roughly 64,000 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)).