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How many pages is The Blithedale Romance?

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne has a median of 232 pages across 217 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 204 to 278 pages.

Median pages
232
217 editions counted
Range
106–510
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
64k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 05 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

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200400190020001852: 288 pages1852: 288 pages1852: 288 pages1852: 324 pages1852: 284 pages1854: 300 pages1860: 288 pages1865: 288 pages1876: 281 pages1880: 281 pages1880: 281 pages1880: 250 pages1885: 284 pages1892: 200 pages1894: 281 pages1899: 310 pages1899: 277 pages1900: 324 pages1900: 408 pages1900: 354 pages1902: 231 pages1912: 250 pages1926: 250 pages1926: 250 pages1958: 250 pages1958: 251 pages1958: 250 pages1958: 240 pages1960: 290 pages1960: 288 pages1960: 290 pages1964: 290 pages1975: 290 pages1978: 418 pages1981: 200 pages1983: 260 pages1991: 256 pages1993: 300 pages1998: 251 pages1998: 334 pages1999: 306 pages2001: 242 pages2003: 156 pages2004: 242 pages2005: 204 pages2005: 200 pages2006: 180 pages2006: 164 pages2006: 428 pages2007: 284 pages2007: 284 pages2007: 344 pages2007: 268 pages2007: 312 pages2007: 180 pages2007: 210 pages2007: 232 pages2007: 480 pages2007: 416 pages2007: 124 pages2007: 268 pages2008: 324 pages2008: 396 pages2008: 400 pages2009: 256 pages2009: 154 pages2010: 254 pages2010: 304 pages2011: 150 pages2011: 162 pages2011: 172 pages2012: 216 pages2012: 288 pages2012: 250 pages2013: 110 pages2013: 242 pages2013: 258 pages2014: 138 pages2014: 146 pages2014: 202 pages2014: 158 pages2015: 376 pages2015: 188 pages2015: 220 pages2015: 242 pages2015: 202 pages2015: 220 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 144 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 124 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 124 pages2016: 204 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 280 pages2016: 136 pages2016: 156 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 130 pages2016: 218 pages2016: 214 pages2016: 220 pages2016: 146 pages2017: 134 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 174 pages2017: 194 pages2017: 124 pages2017: 136 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 194 pages2017: 204 pages2017: 180 pages2017: 194 pages2017: 108 pages2017: 158 pages2017: 218 pages2017: 218 pages2017: 174 pages2017: 246 pages2017: 218 pages2017: 204 pages2017: 210 pages2018: 206 pages2018: 146 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 430 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 212 pages2018: 206 pages2018: 162 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 208 pages2018: 184 pages2018: 194 pages2018: 294 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 144 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 200 pages2018: 270 pages2018: 194 pages2018: 256 pages2018: 510 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 134 pages2018: 284 pages2018: 218 pages2018: 218 pages2019: 278 pages2020: 264 pages2020: 160 pages2020: 224 pages2020: 264 pages2020: 232 pages2020: 318 pages2020: 264 pages2020: 129 pages2020: 278 pages2020: 278 pages2020: 224 pages2020: 370 pages2020: 232 pages2020: 278 pages2020: 253 pages2020: 278 pages2020: 278 pages2020: 232 pages2020: 278 pages2020: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 255 pages2021: 129 pages2021: 271 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 129 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 232 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pages2021: 278 pagesmedian 232
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover26834 h 43 min
Paperback268134 h 43 min

Editions counted

The 217 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 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 571 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–278OL34311473M
2021Independently Published–278OL34355008M
2021Independently Published–278OL34310264M
2021Independently Published–278OL34348557M
2021Independently Published–278OL34279458M
2021Independently Published–278OL34206440M
2021Independently Published–278OL34334423M
2021Independently Published–278OL34281722M

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Questions

How many pages is The Blithedale Romance?
About 232 pages: that is the median of 217 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 106 to 510 pages.
How long does it take to read The Blithedale Romance?
About 4 h 05 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 Blithedale Romance?
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)).