Book · by Stephen King · first published 1993
How many pages is The Dark Half?
The Dark Half by Stephen King has a median of 450 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 412 to 487 pages.
How long will The Dark Half 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 | 422 | 2 | 7 h 26 min |
| Mass market | 484 | 3 | 8 h 32 min |
Editions counted
The 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 61 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Pocket Books | mass market paperback | 592 | OL28265200M |
| 2016 | Scribner | – | 496 | OL34017815M |
| 2010 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 300 | OL53246598M |
| 1993 | Signet | mass market paperback | 468 | OL7573205M |
| 1991 | Chivers | – | 608 | OL21195146M |
| 1991 | G.K. Hall | – | 608 | OL1884922M |
| 1990 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 484 | OL24204671M |
| 1990 | New English Library | – | 468 | OL18211057M |
| 1990 | Penguin Books | – | 468 | OL16765987M |
| 1989 | Hodder and Stoughton | – | 412 | OL18388145M |
| 1989 | Guild Publishing | Hardcover | 413 | OL18930845M |
| 1989 | Viking | Hardcover | 431 | OL26220034M |
| 1989 | Guild Publishing | – | 412 | OL53203323M |
| 1989 | Viking | – | 431 | OL2061086M |
| 1989 | Guild Publishing | – | 412 | OL48592885M |
| 1989 | Guild Publishing | – | 412 | OL53222776M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Dark Half?
- About 450 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 300 to 608 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Dark Half?
- About 7 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
- How many words is The Dark Half?
- Roughly 124,000 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)).