Book · by Bill Bryson
How many pages is The Mother Tongue?
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson has a median of 270 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 270 to 280 pages.
How long will The Mother Tongue 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 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 29 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 288 | OL28454036M |
| 2010 | Perennial | – | 270 | OL26331430M |
| 2008 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 288 | OL28439565M |
| 2000 | BCA | – | 269 | OL16017998M |
| 2000 | Perennial | Hardcover | 270 | OL25899407M |
| 1991 | Harper Perennial | – | 272 | OL7432842M |
| 1991 | Avon Books | – | 270 | OL18351186M |
| 1991 | Penguin | – | 269 | OL22115846M |
| 1991 | Penguin Books Ltd | Paperback | 288 | OL9303335M |
| 1990 | William Morrow | – | 270 | OL37820559M |
| 1990 | Hamish Hamilton | – | 269 | OL17149461M |
More by Bill Bryson
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All 8 books by Bill Bryson with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Mother Tongue?
- About 270 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 269 to 288 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Mother Tongue?
- About 5 h 12 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is The Mother Tongue?
- Roughly 74,000 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)).