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How many pages is The Innocence of Father Brown?

The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton has a median of 208 pages across 285 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 178 to 258 pages.

Median pages
208
285 editions counted
Range
100–448
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
57k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
3 h 40 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.

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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
Hardcover21843 h 51 min
Paperback228174 h 01 min

Editions counted

The 285 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 55 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 859 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–267OL34346722M
2021Independently Published–254OL34282534M
2021Independently Published–256OL34335655M
2021Warbler Press–172OL34990517M
2021Independently Published–267OL34263740M
2021Independently Published–267OL34349089M
2021Independently Published–267OL34201842M
2021West Margin Press–190OL33905506M

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Questions

How many pages is The Innocence of Father Brown?
About 208 pages: that is the median of 285 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 100 to 448 pages.
How long does it take to read The Innocence of Father Brown?
About 3 h 40 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 Innocence of Father Brown?
Roughly 57,000 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)).