Book · by James Baldwin · first published 1962
How many pages is The Fire Next Time?
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin has a median of 120 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 105 to 141 pages.
How long will The Fire Next Time take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 54 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | – | 167 | OL3962265M |
| 1995 | Modern Library | – | 105 | OL1098511M |
| 1993 | Vintage International | – | 106 | OL1743367M |
| 1988 | Dell | – | 141 | OL18190191M |
| 1970 | Dell Publishing] | – | 141 | OL17426362M |
| 1970 | Dell | – | 141 | OL59443361M |
| 1969 | Penguin Books | – | 98 | OL58836361M |
| 1967 | Hutchinson | – | 105 | OL5575615M |
| 1964 | Dell | – | 120 | OL57656262M |
| 1964 | Penguin in association with Joseph | – | 89 | OL19161037M |
| 1964 | Penguin Books | – | 89 | OL56100985M |
| 1964 | Penguin Books | – | 89 | OL16856899M |
| 1964 | Dell Publishing] | – | 120 | OL14284713M |
| 1963 | Dell Publishing Co., Inc. | – | 146 | OL58836360M |
| 1963 | Michael Joseph | – | 118 | OL58628294M |
| 1963 | Joseph | – | 112 | OL17382070M |
| 1963 | Dial Press | – | 120 | OL23249598M |
| 1963 | Dial Press | – | 120 | OL17756114M |
| 1963 | Dial Press | – | 120 | OL5880787M |
| 1962 | A Dell Book | – | 146 | OL58836362M |
More by James Baldwin
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Questions
- How many pages is The Fire Next Time?
- About 120 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 89 to 167 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Fire Next Time?
- About 2 h 07 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
- How many words is The Fire Next Time?
- Roughly 33,000 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)).