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How many pages is The Man Who Was Thursday?

The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton has a median of 164 pages across 365 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 124 to 192 pages.

Median pages
164
365 editions counted
Range
78–334
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
45k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
2 h 53 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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100200300195020001908: 162 pages1908: 174 pages1908: 329 pages1908: 130 pages1908: 329 pages1908: 296 pages1908: 294 pages1908: 296 pages1908: 281 pages1908: 332 pages1908: 134 pages1910: 281 pages1912: 330 pages1915: 330 pages1926: 100 pages1926: 100 pages1926: 100 pages1933: 281 pages1935: 192 pages1935: 192 pages1935: 192 pages1937: 256 pages1942: 143 pages1945: 224 pages1946: 281 pages1947: 192 pages1958: 192 pages1960: 192 pages1963: 192 pages1963: 192 pages1967: 185 pages1975: 199 pages1979: 192 pages1979: 192 pages1980: 192 pages1984: 192 pages1986: 120 pages1987: 286 pages1990: 192 pages1995: 145 pages1996: 194 pages1998: 184 pages1999: 199 pages1999: 199 pages1999: 289 pages2001: 198 pages2002: 249 pages2004: 167 pages2004: 176 pages2004: 289 pages2005: 184 pages2005: 104 pages2005: 268 pages2006: 120 pages2006: 168 pages2006: 138 pages2006: 182 pages2006: 234 pages2006: 332 pages2007: 242 pages2007: 196 pages2007: 132 pages2007: 226 pages2007: 184 pages2007: 209 pages2007: 166 pages2008: 224 pages2008: 194 pages2008: 224 pages2008: 182 pages2008: 187 pages2008: 200 pages2008: 164 pages2009: 180 pages2009: 200 pages2009: 100 pages2010: 195 pages2010: 124 pages2010: 114 pages2011: 118 pages2011: 152 pages2011: 118 pages2011: 224 pages2011: 152 pages2012: 184 pages2012: 152 pages2012: 132 pages2012: 136 pages2012: 152 pages2012: 168 pages2012: 140 pages2012: 152 pages2012: 138 pages2012: 152 pages2012: 140 pages2012: 112 pages2012: 152 pages2013: 214 pages2013: 152 pages2013: 86 pages2013: 152 pages2013: 112 pages2013: 192 pages2013: 198 pages2013: 116 pages2014: 164 pages2014: 152 pages2014: 106 pages2014: 86 pages2014: 160 pages2014: 162 pages2014: 216 pages2014: 128 pages2014: 148 pages2014: 334 pages2014: 152 pages2014: 186 pages2014: 164 pages2015: 138 pages2015: 134 pages2015: 108 pages2015: 120 pages2015: 120 pages2015: 128 pages2015: 186 pages2015: 140 pages2015: 112 pages2015: 114 pages2015: 148 pages2015: 100 pages2016: 110 pages2016: 104 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 156 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 122 pages2016: 200 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 260 pages2016: 186 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 114 pages2016: 212 pages2016: 128 pages2016: 128 pages2016: 98 pages2016: 128 pages2016: 156 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 164 pages2016: 152 pages2016: 164 pages2016: 120 pages2016: 196 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 172 pages2016: 130 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 164 pages2016: 178 pages2016: 164 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 186 pages2016: 164 pages2016: 144 pages2016: 164 pages2016: 134 pages2016: 108 pages2017: 282 pages2017: 80 pages2017: 96 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 154 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 96 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 140 pages2017: 122 pages2017: 154 pages2017: 162 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 162 pages2017: 96 pages2017: 80 pages2017: 284 pages2017: 220 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 80 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 100 pages2017: 96 pages2017: 94 pages2017: 158 pages2017: 112 pages2017: 162 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 94 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 126 pages2017: 284 pages2017: 94 pages2017: 116 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 112 pages2017: 166 pages2017: 102 pages2017: 90 pages2017: 104 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 186 pages2017: 282 pages2017: 318 pages2017: 120 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 136 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 130 pages2017: 272 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 270 pages2017: 246 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 126 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 86 pages2017: 108 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 284 pages2017: 150 pages2017: 94 pages2017: 134 pages2017: 186 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 128 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 186 pages2017: 80 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 116 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 94 pages2017: 140 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 114 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 126 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 80 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 106 pages2017: 188 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 236 pages2017: 162 pages2017: 164 pages2017: 96 pages2017: 114 pages2018: 284 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 198 pages2018: 162 pages2018: 114 pages2018: 88 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 78 pages2018: 114 pages2018: 128 pages2018: 128 pages2018: 198 pages2018: 122 pages2018: 170 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 162 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 164 pages2018: 132 pages2018: 142 pagesmedian 164
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 65 editions without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 365 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 62 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 1,105 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–284OL56621644M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–164OL56534976M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–198OL56084550M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–162OL54713366M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–114OL55227120M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–88OL55504822M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–164OL55597202M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–78OL55045870M

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Questions

How many pages is The Man Who Was Thursday?
About 164 pages: that is the median of 365 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 78 to 334 pages.
How long does it take to read The Man Who Was Thursday?
About 2 h 53 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 Was Thursday?
Roughly 45,000 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)).