Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 2006
How many pages is The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams has a median of 282 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 246 to 307 pages.
How long will The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 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 12 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 34 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Gallery Books | – | 243 | OL30380953M |
| 2012 | Pan Books | paperback | 276 | OL27630030M |
| 2011 | Pan Macmillan | – | 288 | OL34436247M |
| 1991 | Pocket Books | – | 307 | OL22250202M |
| 1990 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 307 | OL17575335M |
| 1989 | Chivers Press | – | 288 | OL34426612M |
| 1989 | Pan Books | Mass Market Paperback | 247 | OL18536708M |
| 1989 | Guild Publishing | – | 246 | OL17208411M |
| 1988 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 319 | OL2246256M |
| 1988 | Heinemann | – | 246 | OL16627709M |
| 1988 | Simon and Schuster | – | 211 | OL17575328M |
| – | Pocket Books | – | 308 | OL18699051M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
- About 282 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 211 to 319 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
- About 4 h 58 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
- Roughly 78,000 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).