Book · by C. S. Lewis · first published 2000
How many pages is The Magician's Nephew?
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis has a median of 186 pages across 33 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 176 to 202 pages.
How long will The Magician's Nephew 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 | 208 | 3 | 3 h 40 min |
| Paperback | 197 | 6 | 3 h 28 min |
Editions counted
The 33 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 163 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 208 | OL9243019M |
| 2006 | HarperCollins | Hardcover | 208 | OL9238043M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins | – | 208 | OL7276250M |
| 2005 | HarperCollins | – | 219 | OL3316363M |
| 2004 | HarperCollins | – | 208 | OL7279497M |
| 2003 | HarperCollins Pub. | – | 112 | OL3318376M |
| 2002 | HarperTrophy | Mass Market Paperback | 240 | OL9247395M |
| 2001 | HarperCollins Narnia | – | 176 | OL7293413M |
| 2000 | Thorndike Press | – | 224 | OL48146M |
| 2000 | Collins | Paperback | 192 | OL9214958M |
| 2000 | HarperTrophy | Paperback | 208 | OL9246599M |
| 1997 | HarperCollins Canada, Limited | – | 176 | OL28739163M |
| 1997 | Ted Smart | – | 171 | OL22640688M |
| 1995 | Scholastic Inc | Paperback | 202 | OL7885443M |
| 1994 | HarperTrophy | Paperback | 202 | OL9246470M |
| 1994 | Harper Collins | Hardcover | 202 | OL1406031M |
| 1989 | Collins | – | 171 | OL22755070M |
| 1988 | Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers | – | 176 | OL33348679M |
| 1986 | Windrush | – | 192 | OL22314700M |
| 1986 | Collier Books | – | 168 | OL2548006M |
| 1980 | Fontana Lions | Paperback | 171 | OL22628771M |
| 1976 | Collier | – | 186 | OL21071595M |
| 1976 | Collier | – | 186 | OL18937018M |
| 1974 | MacMillan Publishing Company | – | 186 | OL7265112M |
| 1972 | Penguin Books, in association with the Bodley Head | – | 171 | OL21445665M |
| 1971 | Bodley Head | – | 183 | OL22370207M |
| 1968 | Longman | – | 192 | OL21547907M |
| 1968 | Bodley Head | – | 183 | OL23758383M |
| 1966 | The Bodley Head | – | 183 | OL16164098M |
| 1955 | Collier | – | 186 | OL20939258M |
| 1955 | C.S Lewis | Paperback | 116 | OL26534018M |
| 1955 | Macmillan | – | 167 | OL6180993M |
| 1955 | The Bodley Head | – | 183 | OL18908470M |
More by C. S. Lewis
- 186 pagesThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- 190 pagesMere Christianity
- 768 pagesThe Chronicles of Narnia
- 216 pagesPrince Caspian
- 160 pagesThe Screwtape Letters
- 217 pagesThe Horse and His Boy
All 21 books by C. S. Lewis with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Magician's Nephew?
- About 186 pages: that is the median of 33 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 112 to 240 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Magician's Nephew?
- 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 Magician's Nephew?
- 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).