Book · by C. S. Lewis
How many pages is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis has a median of 186 pages across 51 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 172 to 200 pages.
How long will The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 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 | 184 | 6 | 3 h 14 min |
| Paperback | 189 | 12 | 3 h 20 min |
| Mass market | 186 | 3 | 3 h 17 min |
Editions counted
The 51 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 5 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 158 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Thorndike Press | – | 218 | OL28868416M |
| 2014 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 208 | OL28537925M |
| 2009 | Harper | Hardcover | 176 | OL26045230M |
| 2009 | HarperCollins Children's Books | Paperback | 171 | OL28187491M |
| 2008 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 202 | OL28436098M |
| 2006 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 208 | OL9243016M |
| 2005 | HarperEntertainment | Mass Market Paperback | 224 | OL25994223M |
| 2005 | HarperEntertainment | – | 189 | OL13572822M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins Pub. | – | 189 | OL3316364M |
| 2005 | HarperEntertainment | Paperback | 189 | OL26643780M |
| 2005 | HarperTrophy | Paperback | 202 | OL3953646M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 208 | OL28977946M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 256 | OL28430630M |
| 2005 | HarperTrophy | Paperback | 189 | OL3432667M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 198 | OL23178287M |
| 2003 | Harper Trophy | – | 189 | OL25034010M |
| 2003 | Collins | – | 112 | OL22815700M |
| 2003 | HarperCollins Pub. | – | 110 | OL3318377M |
| 2002 | HarperCollins | – | 192 | OL7274632M |
| 2001 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 203 | OL22819694M |
| 2000 | Thorndike Press | – | 208 | OL51614M |
| 1998 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 208 | OL9949415M |
| 1998 | Collins | Paperback | 172 | OL26643729M |
| 1997 | HarperCollins Canada, Limited | – | 174 | OL28739162M |
| 1997 | HarperCollinsPublishers | – | 174 | OL1009803M |
| 1997 | Ted Smart | – | 171 | OL22814934M |
| 1995 | Scholastic | Paperback | 210 | OL24381130M |
| 1995 | Scholastic | Paperback | 189 | OL16708635M |
| 1994 | HarperCollins | – | 189 | OL23277630M |
| 1994 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 189 | OL1401062M |
| 1994 | HarperTrophy | Paperback | 189 | OL27900766M |
| 1994 | HarperTrophy | Paperback | 206 | OL22597220M |
| 1991 | Collins | Hardcover | 178 | OL9906442M |
| 1988 | Lions | – | 171 | OL22382831M |
| 1987 | Collins | – | 171 | OL22755069M |
| 1987 | Scholastic | Mass Market Paperback | 186 | OL26336834M |
| 1986 | Windrush | – | 177 | OL22831242M |
| 1986 | G.K. Hall | – | 177 | OL22906325M |
| 1986 | Collier Books | – | 154 | OL2538068M |
| 1983 | Macmillan | – | 183 | OL3190388M |
| 1980 | Fontana Lions | Paperback | 171 | OL22639887M |
| 1977 | Collier Books | – | 186 | OL22405661M |
| 1970 | MacMillan Publishing Company | Paperback | 192 | OL9219825M |
| 1970 | Collier Books | Mass Market Paperback | 186 | OL20940394M |
| 1969 | Geoffrey Bles | – | 172 | OL23758079M |
| 1968 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | Hardcover | 154 | OL7267560M |
| 1959 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 171 | OL25413424M |
| 1950 | Macmillan | – | 154 | OL28661526M |
| 1950 | G. Bles | – | 172 | OL6084495M |
| 1950 | Macmillan | – | 154 | OL22705253M |
| 1950 | Macmillan | – | 154 | OL6071479M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
- About 186 pages: that is the median of 51 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 110 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
- About 3 h 17 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
- Roughly 51,000 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)).