Book · by Franz Kafka
How many pages is The Castle?
The Castle by Franz Kafka has a median of 416 pages across 49 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 320 to 481 pages.
How long will The Castle 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 | 416 | 3 | 7 h 20 min |
| Paperback | 304 | 5 | 5 h 22 min |
Editions counted
The 49 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 166 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 320 | OL28716989M |
| 2015 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 320 | OL28573987M |
| 2009 | Oxford University Press | – | 279 | OL23164821M |
| 2000 | Penguin Books Ltd | – | 304 | OL7358958M |
| 1999 | Trafalgar Square Publishing | Paperback | 280 | OL9304389M |
| 1998 | Schocken | Hardcover | 325 | OL7934034M |
| 1998 | Schocken | Paperback | 352 | OL7933781M |
| 1998 | Schocken Books | – | 328 | OL672092M |
| 1997 | Penguin Group | – | 328 | OL20652143M |
| 1995 | Schocken Books | – | 481 | OL1119318M |
| 1992 | Minerva | – | 432 | OL22474014M |
| 1992 | Everyman | – | 378 | OL28428723M |
| 1992 | Everyman's Library | Hardcover | 416 | OL7698685M |
| 1992 | Random House | Paperback | 304 | OL7966803M |
| 1992 | Knopf | – | 378 | OL1744070M |
| 1991 | Quality Paperback Book Club | – | 481 | OL18326138M |
| 1988 | Schocken | Hardcover | 504 | OL7933689M |
| 1987 | Schocken | Paperback | 481 | OL7933453M |
| 1974 | Vintage Books | – | 471 | OL14508138M |
| 1974 | Fischer | – | 310 | OL20311786M |
| 1974 | Schocken Books | – | 481 | OL5441043M |
| 1974 | Penguin | – | 298 | OL5252935M |
| 1974 | Vintage Books | – | 471 | OL5421329M |
| 1970 | Penguin Books Ltd | Paperback | 304 | OL9300421M |
| 1969 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL17449964M |
| 1969 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL24930703M |
| 1969 | Modern Library | – | 481 | OL5284881M |
| 1969 | Modern Library | – | 481 | OL7461641M |
| 1965 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL19049507M |
| 1965 | Secker & Warburg | – | 451 | OL22028476M |
| 1964 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL17936343M |
| 1962 | Fischer | – | 470 | OL14535989M |
| 1961 | Secker and Warburg | – | 451 | OL13689069M |
| 1959 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL28398367M |
| 1958 | New York | – | 481 | OL20938322M |
| 1957 | Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg | – | 298 | OL22413166M |
| 1957 | Penguin Books in association with Secker & Warburg | – | 298 | OL21186037M |
| 1956 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 481 | OL17882396M |
| 1954 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL18314212M |
| 1954 | Knopf | – | 481 | OL6153030M |
| 1951 | A. A. Knopf | – | 339 | OL17887459M |
| 1948 | Knopf | – | 339 | OL19837864M |
| 1947 | Secker and Warburg | – | 320 | OL20918118M |
| 1947 | Secker and Warburg | – | 320 | OL21130210M |
| 1945 | Knopf | – | 339 | OL26398835M |
| 1941 | A.A. Knopf | – | 339 | OL6412929M |
| 1935 | S. Fischer | – | 543 | OL27789352M |
| 1930 | M. Secker | – | 450 | OL6744455M |
| 1930 | A. A. Knopf | – | 339 | OL6748045M |
More by Franz Kafka
- 78 pagesMetamorphosis
- 281 pagesThe Trial
- 238 pagesLetters to Milena
- 271 pagesShort Stories
- 288 pagesAmerika
- 519 pagesTagebücher
All 7 books by Franz Kafka with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Castle?
- About 416 pages: that is the median of 49 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 279 to 543 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Castle?
- About 7 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
- How many words is The Castle?
- Roughly 114,000 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)).