Book · by John Fowles · first published 1983
How many pages is The Collector?
The Collector by John Fowles has a median of 288 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 277 to 305 pages.
How long will The Collector 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 | 326 | 3 | 5 h 45 min |
| Paperback | 301 | 2 | 5 h 18 min |
Editions counted
The 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 288 | OL33416816M |
| 2004 | VINTAGE (RAND) | Paperback | 282 | OL9273368M |
| 2002 | Barnes & Noble Books | Unknown Binding | 295 | OL8013105M |
| 1998 | Vintage | – | 288 | OL7319863M |
| 1997 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 320 | OL9803769M |
| 1986 | Pan Books | – | 282 | OL14724792M |
| 1986 | ISIS Large Print Books | Hardcover | 370 | OL9623966M |
| 1982 | Inkilap ve Aka | – | 288 | OL21781435M |
| 1982 | Franklin Library | – | 295 | OL3130473M |
| 1977 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 255 | OL24953225M |
| 1976 | Triad Panther | – | 287 | OL22354634M |
| 1971 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 255 | OL24203689M |
| 1964 | Dell Publishing Company | – | 258 | OL49819082M |
| 1964 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 255 | OL16088829M |
| 1963 | Little, Brown and Company | – | 262 | OL51001064M |
| 1963 | Jonathan Cape | – | 282 | OL5875205M |
| 1963 | Little, Brown | – | 305 | OL23249622M |
| 1963 | Little, Brown | – | 305 | OL5882158M |
| 1963 | Jonathan Cape | Hardcover | 326 | OL47807093M |
| – | Little Brown Company | Hardcover | 305 | OL8528379M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Collector?
- About 288 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 255 to 370 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Collector?
- About 5 h 05 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is The Collector?
- Roughly 79,000 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)).