Book · by John Grisham
How many pages is The Pelican Brief?
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham has a median of 392 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 371 to 436 pages.
How long will The Pelican Brief 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 | 404 | 4 | 7 h 07 min |
| Mass market | 404 | 2 | 7 h 07 min |
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 82 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Penguin Random House | – | 432 | OL28445509M |
| 2006 | Delta | paperback | 400 | OL30537105M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 436 | OL9787995M |
| 1995 | Chivers | – | 472 | OL21365364M |
| 1994 | Chivers P. | – | 445 | OL16728228M |
| 1993 | Doubleday | – | 384 | OL7439989M |
| 1993 | Arrow | Mass Market Paperback | 371 | OL18046137M |
| 1993 | Island Books | Mass Market Paperback | 436 | OL26913976M |
| 1993 | Bantam Books | – | 384 | OL7520377M |
| 1992 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 371 | OL1553243M |
| 1992 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 642 | OL29558687M |
| 1992 | Doubleday | – | 303 | OL13634800M |
| 1992 | Penguin Random House | – | 371 | OL40308472M |
| 1992 | Century | Hardcover | 371 | OL18447068M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Pelican Brief?
- About 392 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 303 to 642 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Pelican Brief?
- About 6 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
- How many words is The Pelican Brief?
- Roughly 108,000 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)).