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How many pages is The Great Hunt?

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan has a median of 688 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 626 to 712 pages.

Median pages
688
7 editions counted
Range
598–736
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
12h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
189k
at 275 words per page
Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
Series in order

How long will The Great Hunt take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
12 h 08 min
At 30 min a day
25 days
At 1 hour a day
13 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

60065070075019902000201020201990: 600 pages1991: 598 pages1991: 705 pages1991: 688 pages2009: 736 pages2012: 653 pages2021: 720 pagesmedian 688
600650700750200020201990: 600 pages1991: 598 pages1991: 705 pages1991: 688 pages2009: 736 pages2012: 653 pages2021: 720 pagesmedian 688
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 48 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Little, Brown Book Group Limited–720OL33906597M
2012Tor–653OL25387531M
2009Little, Brown Book Group Limited–736OL33420743M
1991Orbit–598OL18721986M
1991Tor FantasyMass Market Paperback705OL9368501M
1991Orbit–688OL17452848M
1990Tom Doherty Associates–600OL1858597M

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Questions

How many pages is The Great Hunt?
About 688 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 598 to 736 pages.
How long does it take to read The Great Hunt?
About 12 h 08 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 25 days.
How many words is The Great Hunt?
Roughly 189,000 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).