Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 1980
How many pages is The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams has a median of 225 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 206 to 250 pages.
How long will it 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 | 208 | 5 | 3 h 40 min |
| Paperback | 224 | 7 | 3 h 57 min |
| Mass market | 250 | 4 | 4 h 24 min |
Editions counted
The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 92 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Pan Books | Paperback | 226 | OL26843961M |
| 2016 | Pan Books | Paperback | 226 | OL32833777M |
| 2013 | Gollancz | Hardback | 208 | OL26435647M |
| 2010 | Macmillan | Paperback | 224 | OL26435640M |
| 2009 | Ballantine Books | Trade Paperback | 250 | OL3434029M |
| 2009 | Pan Books | Paperback | 206 | OL26435325M |
| 2002 | Picador | Paperback | 200 | OL10492629M |
| 2002 | Gollancz | Hardcover | 208 | OL7878769M |
| 1997 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 256 | OL9723965M |
| 1994 | Millenium Books | Hardcover | 192 | OL9002619M |
| 1987 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 250 | OL7661534M |
| 1984 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 250 | OL37038713M |
| 1984 | Pan Original | Paperback | 187 | OL22083468M |
| 1982 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 250 | OL32832886M |
| 1981 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 250 | OL4260893M |
| 1981 | Book Club Associates | Hardcover | 187 | OL37807528M |
| 1981 | Picador | – | 250 | OL22602119M |
| 1980 | Harmony Books | – | 217 | OL18637487M |
More by Douglas Adams
- 215 pagesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 216 pagesLife, the Universe and Everything
- 815 pagesThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 306 pagesDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- 196 pagesSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- 282 pagesThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
All 9 books by Douglas Adams with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
- About 225 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 187 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
- About 3 h 58 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
- Roughly 62,000 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).