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How many pages is The Mysterious Island?

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne has a median of 493 pages across 33 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 493 to 560 pages.

Median pages
493
33 editions counted
Range
310–768
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
136k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Mysterious Island take you?

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Reading time
8 h 41 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

4006008001900195020001875: 310 pages1876: 310 pages1884: 478 pages1900: 478 pages1900: 493 pages1900: 426 pages1900: 493 pages1918: 493 pages1924: 493 pages1927: 493 pages1933: 493 pages1940: 493 pages1946: 493 pages1946: 493 pages1956: 500 pages1957: 626 pages1957: 626 pages1958: 500 pages1959: 568 pages1959: 568 pages1988: 493 pages1998: 400 pages2001: 674 pages2001: 629 pages2002: 560 pages2004: 768 pages2004: 510 pages2006: 556 pages2007: 540 pages2008: 510 pages2008: 612 pages2017: 496 pages2018: 420 pagesmedian 493
4006008001900195020001875: 310 pages1876: 310 pages1884: 478 pages1900: 478 pages1900: 493 pages1900: 426 pages1900: 493 pages1918: 493 pages1924: 493 pages1927: 493 pages1933: 493 pages1940: 493 pages1946: 493 pages1946: 493 pages1956: 500 pages1957: 626 pages1957: 626 pages1958: 500 pages1959: 568 pages1959: 568 pages1988: 493 pages1998: 400 pages2001: 674 pages2001: 629 pages2002: 560 pages2004: 768 pages2004: 510 pages2006: 556 pages2007: 540 pages2008: 510 pages2008: 612 pages2017: 496 pages2018: 420 pagesmedian 493
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover45528 h 01 min
Paperback54869 h 40 min

Editions counted

The 33 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 7 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 84 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Digireads.com Publishingpaperback420OL27380068M
2017Dover Publications, Incorporatedpaperback496OL28642857M
2008–library binding510OL28367243M
2008Forgotten Bookspaperback612OL32444363M
2007Book JunglePaperback540OL12557683M
2006BiblioBazaarPaperback556OL9570458M
2004Modern LibraryMass Market Paperback768OL8021005M
2004Signet Classics–510OL3303716M

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Questions

How many pages is The Mysterious Island?
About 493 pages: that is the median of 33 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 310 to 768 pages.
How long does it take to read The Mysterious Island?
About 8 h 41 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is The Mysterious Island?
Roughly 136,000 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)).