Book · by John Fowles · first published 1965
How many pages is The Magus?
The Magus by John Fowles has a median of 617 pages across 23 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 582 to 656 pages.
How long will The Magus 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 23 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 61 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Penguin Random House | – | 672 | OL33405669M |
| 2001 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 656 | OL9869702M |
| 1998 | Modern Library | – | 711 | OL692273M |
| 1997 | Vintage | – | 656 | OL286306M |
| 1985 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 668 | OL21587532M |
| 1985 | Dell | – | 672 | OL7520522M |
| 1983 | Triad Granada | – | 656 | OL18514415M |
| 1979 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 668 | OL24953366M |
| 1978 | Little Brown & Co (T) | Hardcover | 656 | OL9616039M |
| 1977 | Little, Brown | – | 656 | OL19828301M |
| 1973 | Dell | – | 605 | OL19305854M |
| 1967 | Dell Pub. Co. | – | 605 | OL24236934M |
| 1966 | J. Cape | – | 617 | OL44916695M |
| 1966 | Little, Brown | – | 582 | OL5949027M |
| 1966 | Jonathan Cape | – | 617 | OL16600647M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown | – | 582 | OL24226687M |
| 1965 | Little Brown | Hardcover | 582 | OL13862263M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown | – | 582 | OL24213207M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown | – | 582 | OL26571352M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown | – | 606 | OL15044407M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown and Co. | – | 606 | OL44989691M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown | – | 582 | OL13536265M |
| 1965 | Little, Brown | – | 582 | OL33015566M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Magus?
- About 617 pages: that is the median of 23 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 582 to 711 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Magus?
- About 10 h 53 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 22 days.
- How many words is The Magus?
- Roughly 170,000 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)).