Book · by Tom Wolfe · first published 1987
How many pages is The Bonfire of the Vanities?
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe has a median of 668 pages across 22 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 659 to 724 pages.
How long will The Bonfire of the Vanities 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 | 659 | 6 | 11 h 37 min |
| Paperback | 715 | 6 | 12 h 36 min |
| Mass market | 710 | 2 | 12 h 31 min |
Editions counted
The 22 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 89 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 720 | OL32808706M |
| 2008 | Picador | Paperback | 552 | OL10390356M |
| 2003 | Easton Press | – | 659 | OL44882268M |
| 2002 | Picador | Paperback | 710 | OL10492659M |
| 2001 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 639 | OL7826526M |
| 1990 | Picador | paperback | 730 | OL22642826M |
| 1990 | Picador | Mass Market Paperback | 730 | OL10488982M |
| 1989 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | – | 659 | OL16316140M |
| 1989 | Chivers | – | 976 | OL17430690M |
| 1989 | G.K. Hall | – | 976 | OL2184164M |
| 1989 | MacMillan Publishing Company | Hardcover | 992 | OL9604304M |
| 1988 | Farrar, Straus Giroux | Hardcover | 659 | OL2388548M |
| 1988 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 690 | OL14413360M |
| 1988 | Picador | Paperback | 726 | OL25800530M |
| 1988 | Cape | – | 659 | OL22629502M |
| 1988 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Hardcover | 659 | OL61776337M |
| 1987 | Bantam Books | – | 706 | OL58886795M |
| 1987 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Hardcover | 659 | OL31867325M |
| 1987 | Franklin Library | – | 659 | OL2086396M |
| 1987 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Hardcover | 659 | OL32660781M |
| 1987 | Farrar Straus Giroux | Hardcover | 659 | OL32660771M |
| 1987 | Doubleday | – | 678 | OL45871822M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Bonfire of the Vanities?
- About 668 pages: that is the median of 22 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 552 to 992 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Bonfire of the Vanities?
- About 11 h 47 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 24 days.
- How many words is The Bonfire of the Vanities?
- Roughly 184,000 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)).