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How many pages is The Horse and His Boy?

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis has a median of 217 pages across 53 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 192 to 226 pages.

Median pages
217
53 editions counted
Range
118–304
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
60k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
3 h 50 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1002003001960198020001954: 191 pages1954: 199 pages1954: 239 pages1954: 199 pages1954: 191 pages1965: 194 pages1965: 192 pages1965: 199 pages1966: 194 pages1968: 199 pages1971: 199 pages1971: 226 pages1972: 194 pages1973: 194 pages1975: 226 pages1976: 217 pages1978: 217 pages1980: 175 pages1986: 172 pages1986: 194 pages1987: 175 pages1988: 217 pages1990: 176 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 258 pages1994: 192 pages1995: 224 pages1995: 224 pages1997: 175 pages1998: 175 pages1998: 175 pages2000: 240 pages2000: 240 pages2000: 253 pages2000: 224 pages2001: 176 pages2002: 241 pages2005: 304 pages2005: 240 pages2005: 254 pages2006: 240 pages2008: 176 pages2009: 256 pages2009: 208 pages2014: 208 pages2017: 118 pages2017: 228 pages2017: 226 pages2018: 224 pages2018: 292 pagesmedian 217
100200300197520001954: 191 pages1954: 199 pages1954: 239 pages1954: 199 pages1954: 191 pages1965: 194 pages1965: 192 pages1965: 199 pages1966: 194 pages1968: 199 pages1971: 199 pages1971: 226 pages1972: 194 pages1973: 194 pages1975: 226 pages1976: 217 pages1978: 217 pages1980: 175 pages1986: 172 pages1986: 194 pages1987: 175 pages1988: 217 pages1990: 176 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 224 pages1994: 258 pages1994: 192 pages1995: 224 pages1995: 224 pages1997: 175 pages1998: 175 pages1998: 175 pages2000: 240 pages2000: 240 pages2000: 253 pages2000: 224 pages2001: 176 pages2002: 241 pages2005: 304 pages2005: 240 pages2005: 254 pages2006: 240 pages2008: 176 pages2009: 256 pages2009: 208 pages2014: 208 pages2017: 118 pages2017: 228 pages2017: 226 pages2018: 224 pages2018: 292 pagesmedian 217
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover22453 h 57 min
Paperback22043 h 53 min

Editions counted

The 53 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 185 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–224OL55409812M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–292OL55672417M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–118OL55497084M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–228OL55176504M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–226OL55666677M
2014HarperCollins Publishers Limited–208OL28537922M
2009HarperCollins Publishers Limited–256OL29592109M
2009HarperCollins Publishers Limited–208OL28457238M

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Questions

How many pages is The Horse and His Boy?
About 217 pages: that is the median of 53 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 118 to 304 pages.
How long does it take to read The Horse and His Boy?
About 3 h 50 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is The Horse and His Boy?
Roughly 60,000 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).