Book · by Susan Cooper · first published 2002
How many pages is The Dark Is Rising?
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper has a median of 244 pages across 30 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 232 to 272 pages.
How long will The Dark Is Rising 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 | 285 | 2 | 5 h 01 min |
| Paperback | 256 | 6 | 4 h 31 min |
Editions counted
The 30 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 58 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 272 | OL29429081M |
| 2013 | Penguin Random House | – | 400 | OL34488991M |
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 400 | OL28446805M |
| 2010 | Random House Children's Books | – | 400 | OL33389442M |
| 2007 | Scholastic | – | 244 | OL32091487M |
| 2007 | Aladdin | Paperback | 256 | OL8458991M |
| 2007 | Simon Pulse | Paperback | 272 | OL8458980M |
| 2007 | Simon Pulse | Paperback | 272 | OL8458984M |
| 2005 | Aladdin | Paperback | 232 | OL8457837M |
| 2002 | Margaret K. McElderry | – | 230 | OL18792165M |
| 2002 | Aladdin | Paperback | 256 | OL7730037M |
| 2001 | McElderry Books, Margaret K. | – | 232 | OL33972885M |
| 2001 | Thorndike Press | – | 400 | OL6793909M |
| 1999 | Aladdin Paperbacks | – | 244 | OL20669512M |
| 1999 | Aladdin | Mass Market Paperback | 232 | OL7729298M |
| 1999 | Aladdin | Paperback | 244 | OL7729301M |
| 1994 | Puffin Books | – | 330 | OL18115945M |
| 1994 | Random HouseChildren's Books | – | 304 | OL17944890M |
| 1988 | ISIS Large Print Books | Hardcover | 338 | OL9508737M |
| 1986 | Collier Books | – | 244 | OL2710913M |
| 1984 | Bodley Head | – | 250 | OL18433581M |
| 1976 | Puffin Books | – | 272 | OL7353002M |
| 1975 | Atheneum | – | 216 | OL13539828M |
| 1974 | Atheneum | – | 216 | OL21027561M |
| 1973 | Scholastic | – | 244 | OL24228956M |
| 1973 | Atheneum | – | 216 | OL18655754M |
| 1973 | Chatto & Windus | – | 224 | OL15108921M |
| 1973 | Chatto and Windus | – | 216 | OL16788155M |
| 1973 | Margaret K. McElderry | Hardcover | 232 | OL7728117M |
| 1973 | Atheneum | – | 216 | OL5303600M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Dark Is Rising?
- About 244 pages: that is the median of 30 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 216 to 400 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Dark Is Rising?
- About 4 h 18 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is The Dark Is Rising?
- Roughly 67,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).