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Book · by Jean M. Auel · first published 2003

How many pages is The Plains of Passage?

The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel has a median of 860 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 746 to 976 pages.

Median pages
860
14 editions counted
Range
700–1,364
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
15h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
236k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
15 h 10 min
At 30 min a day
31 days
At 1 hour a day
16 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

7501,0001,250199019952000200520101990: 760 pages1990: 700 pages1990: 742 pages1991: 736 pages1991: 1,363 pages1991: 868 pages1992: 976 pages1993: 1,364 pages1994: 880 pages2001: 768 pages2002: 738 pages2002: 976 pages2002: 1,316 pages2010: 852 pagesmedian 860
7501,0001,2501990200020101990: 760 pages1990: 700 pages1990: 742 pages1991: 736 pages1991: 1,363 pages1991: 868 pages1992: 976 pages1993: 1,364 pages1994: 880 pages2001: 768 pages2002: 738 pages2002: 976 pages2002: 1,316 pages2010: 852 pagesmedian 860
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
Paperback976317 h 12 min
Mass market874215 h 24 min

Editions counted

The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 67 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2010Bantam–852OL27106160M
2002Bantam Books–738OL25050701M
2002Coronet BooksPaperback976OL10676725M
2002Random House Large Print–1,316OL3570893M
2001Crown–768OL7585976M
1994Bantam BooksMass Market Paperback880OL7819717M
1993Chivers Press–1,364OL18773103M
1992Hodder & StoughtonPaperback976OL10622949M

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Questions

How many pages is The Plains of Passage?
About 860 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 700 to 1,364 pages.
How long does it take to read The Plains of Passage?
About 15 h 10 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 31 days.
How many words is The Plains of Passage?
Roughly 236,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).