Book · by Toni Morrison
How many pages is The Bluest Eye?
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison has a median of 172 pages across 22 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 160 to 215 pages.
How long will The Bluest Eye 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 | 216 | 3 | 3 h 48 min |
| Paperback | 210 | 4 | 3 h 43 min |
| Mass market | 160 | 3 | 2 h 49 min |
Editions counted
The 22 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 63 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Penguin Random House | – | 172 | OL29487798M |
| 2014 | Penguin Random House | – | 224 | OL33532779M |
| 2007 | Dramatic Publishing | – | 80 | OL19286519M |
| 2007 | Vintage International | Paperback | 205 | OL27931964M |
| 2005 | Plume | – | 215 | OL7591157M |
| 2000 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 215 | OL13629280M |
| 2000 | Plume | Paperback | 216 | OL32029797M |
| 1999 | G.K. Hall | Hardcover | 256 | OL47418M |
| 1994 | Plume | Paperback | 216 | OL60958048M |
| 1994 | Picador | – | 173 | OL17154274M |
| 1993 | Knopf | – | 215 | OL1431644M |
| 1993 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 216 | OL23261835M |
| 1990 | Picador | – | 164 | OL22571718M |
| 1981 | Triad Grafton | – | 190 | OL15081774M |
| 1979 | Chatto & Windus | – | 164 | OL20293252M |
| 1979 | Washington Square Press | Mass Market Paperback | 160 | OL24375625M |
| 1972 | Washtington Square Press | Mass Market Paperback | 160 | OL7647772M |
| 1972 | Pocket Books | – | 160 | OL14699494M |
| 1972 | Washington Square Press | – | 160 | OL24941614M |
| 1972 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 160 | OL7666275M |
| 1972 | Pocket Books | Paperback | 160 | OL49671913M |
| 1970 | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | – | 164 | OL4454628M |
More by Toni Morrison
All 6 books by Toni Morrison with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Bluest Eye?
- About 172 pages: that is the median of 22 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 80 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Bluest Eye?
- About 3 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is The Bluest Eye?
- Roughly 47,000 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)).