Book · by Raymond Chandler
How many pages is The Long Goodbye?
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler has a median of 319 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 313 to 320 pages.
How long will The Long Goodbye 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 | 316 | 3 | 5 h 34 min |
| Paperback | 320 | 3 | 5 h 38 min |
Editions counted
The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 35 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Hamish Hamilton | – | 319 | OL13867796M |
| 1988 | Vintage books | – | 379 | OL2408566M |
| 1979 | Pan Books | – | 285 | OL14992280M |
| 1973 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 313 | OL10681160M |
| 1971 | H. Hamilton | – | 319 | OL16229067M |
| 1971 | Ballantine Books | – | 312 | OL22778605M |
| 1959 | Penguin | Paperback | 320 | OL19407194M |
| 1959 | Penguin | Paperback | 320 | OL14944061M |
| 1954 | Hougnton Mifflin | – | 256 | OL21351777M |
| 1954 | Houghton Mifflin | Hardcover | 316 | OL20936564M |
| 1954 | Houghton Mifflin | Hardcover | 316 | OL6152469M |
| 1954 | – | – | 332 | OL22178565M |
| 1953 | Hamish Hamilton | Hardcover | 320 | OL17386318M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Long Goodbye?
- About 319 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 256 to 379 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Long Goodbye?
- About 5 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is The Long Goodbye?
- Roughly 88,000 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)).