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How many pages is The Man Who Knew Too Much?

The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith Chesterton has a median of 156 pages across 213 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 134 to 176 pages.

Median pages
156
213 editions counted
Range
82–328
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
43k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
2 h 45 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 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).

Editions counted

The 213 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 13 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 645 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–205OL34264030M
2021Independently Published–205OL34234873M
2021Independently Published–195OL34303432M
2021Independently Published–205OL34197574M
2021Independently Published–253OL34295741M
2021Independently Published–205OL34199040M
2021Independently Published–167OL34324196M
2021Independently Published–205OL34210165M

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Questions

How many pages is The Man Who Knew Too Much?
About 156 pages: that is the median of 213 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 82 to 328 pages.
How long does it take to read The Man Who Knew Too Much?
About 2 h 45 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is The Man Who Knew Too Much?
Roughly 43,000 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)).