Book · by Ernest Hemingway
How many pages is The Old Man and the Sea?
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway has a median of 127 pages across 47 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 117 to 129 pages.
How long will The Old Man and the Sea take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 127 | 5 | 2 h 14 min |
| Paperback | 120 | 4 | 2 h 07 min |
Editions counted
The 47 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 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 307 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Scribner | – | 160 | OL29837938M |
| 2015 | Independently Published | Paperback | 100 | OL37068759M |
| 2014 | Simon & Schuster, Limited | – | 100 | OL33440505M |
| 2002 | Simon & Schuster, Limited | – | 100 | OL34411374M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 128 | OL7973602M |
| 1999 | Vintage | – | 112 | OL7316662M |
| 1998 | Văn Nghue | – | 98 | OL23023181M |
| 1996 | Scribner | – | 93 | OL974459M |
| 1995 | Scribner Paperback Fiction | – | 127 | OL864609M |
| 1994 | G.K. Hall | – | 124 | OL1090131M |
| 1993 | Arrow Books | Paperback | 112 | OL28426328M |
| 1990 | Limited Editions Club | – | 81 | OL24528786M |
| 1987 | Random House UK Distribution | – | 120 | OL7414831M |
| 1987 | Macmillan | – | 127 | OL17551720M |
| 1987 | Collier Books | – | 127 | OL7265161M |
| 1985 | Franklin Library | – | 125 | OL44211890M |
| 1984 | Scribner Book Company | Hardcover | 117 | OL7720556M |
| 1983 | Bilgi Yayimevi | – | 141 | OL21780733M |
| 1983 | Scribner | Hardcover | 127 | OL7719889M |
| 1981 | Oda | – | 88 | OL20414544M |
| 1980 | Scribner | – | 127 | OL61332516M |
| 1980 | C. Scribner's Sons | – | 117 | OL2984420M |
| 1980 | Scribner | – | 127 | OL40241888M |
| 1980 | Scribner Paperback Fiction | Paperback | 128 | OL22596607M |
| 1978 | Shang wu yin shu guan | Hardcover | 185 | OL59307622M |
| 1977 | MacMillan Publishing Company. | Paperback | 128 | OL7720805M |
| 1976 | Triad Grafton | – | 109 | OL22570174M |
| 1975 | Franklin Library | – | 123 | OL4938818M |
| 1968 | Scribner | – | 123 | OL22023424M |
| 1967 | Progress Publishers | – | 132 | OL5688989M |
| 1965 | Scribner | – | 127 | OL22784204M |
| 1964 | Scribner | – | 159 | OL20669126M |
| 1963 | Foreign Languages Pub. House | – | 109 | OL4538649M |
| 1961 | Scribner | – | 159 | OL5842814M |
| 1960 | Charles Scribner's Sons | – | 127 | OL13537877M |
| 1960 | Scribner | – | 138 | OL5802387M |
| 1955 | Cape | – | 117 | OL2992065M |
| 1952 | Scribner | – | 140 | OL23248496M |
| 1952 | Scribner | – | 140 | OL6114226M |
| 1952 | Charles Scribner's Sons | – | 130 | OL50992824M |
| 1952 | Scribner | – | 127 | OL17765501M |
| 1952 | Scribner | – | 127 | OL17728327M |
| 1952 | Jonathan Cape | – | 127 | OL18610197M |
| 1952 | Jonathan Cape | Hardcover | 127 | OL17186309M |
| 1952 | Charles Scribner's Sons | – | 140 | OL17722245M |
| 1952 | Scribners | – | 150 | OL50992667M |
| – | Damianos | – | 122 | OL20819494M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Old Man and the Sea?
- About 127 pages: that is the median of 47 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 81 to 185 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Old Man and the Sea?
- About 2 h 14 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
- How many words is The Old Man and the Sea?
- Roughly 35,000 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)).