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How many pages is The Magic Mountain?

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann has a median of 729 pages across 53 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 724 to 748 pages.

Median pages
729
53 editions counted
Range
448–900
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
13h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
200k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Magic Mountain take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
12 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
26 days
At 1 hour a day
13 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
Hardcover854215 h 03 min
Paperback47238 h 19 min

Editions counted

The 53 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 188 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2005Kessinger PublishingPaperback448OL9771618M
2005Everyman's LibraryHardcover854OL8363029M
2005Alfred A. KnopfHardcover854OL8998575M
2005Kessinger PublishingPaperback472OL11794012M
2000The Folio Society–697OL22637057M
1996VintagePaperback720OL7701083M
1996Vintage International–706OL22378615M
1996Minerva–729OL19411763M

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Questions

How many pages is The Magic Mountain?
About 729 pages: that is the median of 53 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 448 to 900 pages.
How long does it take to read The Magic Mountain?
About 12 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 26 days.
How many words is The Magic Mountain?
Roughly 200,000 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)).