Book · by Michael Crichton
How many pages is The Lost World?
The Lost World by Michael Crichton has a median of 430 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 393 to 439 pages.
How long will The Lost World 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 | 393 | 5 | 6 h 56 min |
| Mass market | 430 | 3 | 7 h 35 min |
Editions counted
The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 3 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 78 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Arrow Books | Paperback | 430 | OL28567016M |
| 2000 | Charnwood | Hardcover | 608 | OL9402446M |
| 1997 | Arrow | Mass Market Paperback | 430 | OL9271073M |
| 1997 | Knopf | Hardcover | 393 | OL7699355M |
| 1996 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 448 | OL9373597M |
| 1996 | Arrow | Mass Market Paperback | 430 | OL9274301M |
| 1995 | Century | – | 393 | OL22636801M |
| 1995 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 393 | OL31885157M |
| 1995 | Random House Large Print | – | 561 | OL799127M |
| 1995 | BCA | Hardcover | 393 | OL39479435M |
| 1995 | BCA | Hardcover | 393 | OL39479436M |
More by Michael Crichton
All 12 books by Michael Crichton with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Lost World?
- About 430 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 393 to 608 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Lost World?
- About 7 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
- How many words is The Lost World?
- Roughly 118,000 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)).