Book · by Alice Walker · first published 1982
How many pages is The Color Purple?
The Color Purple by Alice Walker has a median of 262 pages across 32 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 252 to 288 pages.
How long will The Color Purple 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 | 289 | 6 | 5 h 06 min |
| Paperback | 259 | 8 | 4 h 34 min |
| Mass market | 295 | 3 | 5 h 12 min |
Editions counted
The 32 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 108 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 288 | OL33943568M |
| 2019 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 288 | OL29428855M |
| 2015 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers | – | 304 | OL28808296M |
| 2014 | Phoenix | – | 262 | OL37745201M |
| 2011 | Phoenix | Paperback | 262 | OL28370395M |
| 2011 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | Paperback | 287 | OL29631112M |
| 2004 | Phoenix | paperback | 262 | OL46944713M |
| 2004 | Harcourt | Mass Market Paperback | 294 | OL7365732M |
| 2004 | Harcourt | Paperback | 288 | OL3673322M |
| 1998 | Washington Square Press | Paperback | 256 | OL7644617M |
| 1992 | Harcourt | Hardcover | 290 | OL1565403M |
| 1992 | Pocket Books | library binding | 296 | OL34969901M |
| 1992 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Hardcover | 348 | OL8690360M |
| 1992 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 295 | OL24979647M |
| 1992 | Women's Press | – | 245 | OL17415563M |
| 1991 | Cambridge University Press, in association with The Women's | – | 264 | OL22836289M |
| 1987 | Woman's Press | Paperback | 245 | OL32650585M |
| 1986 | Guild Publishing | – | 262 | OL58635173M |
| 1986 | Lindhardt of Ringhof | – | 253 | OL13549494M |
| 1986 | G.K. Hall | – | 266 | OL2721497M |
| 1986 | Guild Publishing | hardcover | 245 | OL13936399M |
| 1985 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 295 | OL28040165M |
| 1985 | Pocket Books | – | 295 | OL54194491M |
| 1984 | Inkilap | – | 240 | OL20572930M |
| 1983 | Washington Square Press | Paperback | 251 | OL7661641M |
| 1983 | Washington Square Press published by Pocket Books | Paperback | 253 | OL24950706M |
| 1983 | Perfection Learning Prebound | Library Binding | 288 | OL9859383M |
| 1983 | Washington Square Press | – | 253 | OL16171798M |
| 1983 | Pocket Books/Washington Square Press | – | 251 | OL22294044M |
| 1983 | Washington Square Press | – | 253 | OL18196963M |
| 1982 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers | Hardcover | 245 | OL32650430M |
| 1982 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers | – | 245 | OL54207223M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Color Purple?
- About 262 pages: that is the median of 32 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 240 to 348 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Color Purple?
- About 4 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is The Color Purple?
- Roughly 72,000 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)).