Book · by Tom Wolfe · first published 1979
How many pages is The Right Stuff?
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe has a median of 368 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 367 to 446 pages.
How long will The Right Stuff 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 | 352 | 3 | 6 h 47 min |
| Paperback | 407 | 2 | 7 h 50 min |
Editions counted
The 21 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 41 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penguin Random House | – | 448 | OL30597496M |
| 2008 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | – | 448 | OL29574682M |
| 2005 | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers | Hardcover | 304 | OL8756602M |
| 2001 | Bantam | Paperback | 368 | OL7826527M |
| 2001 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 352 | OL9656004M |
| 1998 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 436 | OL22638708M |
| 1998 | MacMillan | Hardcover | 368 | OL10489706M |
| 1991 | Picador | – | 364 | OL22625503M |
| 1989 | Black Swan | – | 364 | OL17196650M |
| 1984 | Thorndike Press | – | 701 | OL2838289M |
| 1983 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 448 | OL7423284M |
| 1983 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | – | 436 | OL16830288M |
| 1983 | Bantam | – | 367 | OL15063644M |
| 1983 | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | – | 436 | OL2927812M |
| 1983 | Bantam Books | – | 368 | OL22922022M |
| 1981 | Bantam | – | 368 | OL15063607M |
| 1980 | Bantam Books | – | 368 | OL22610296M |
| 1980 | Bantam | mass market paperback | 367 | OL28678946M |
| 1979 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | – | 436 | OL22127914M |
| 1979 | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | Paperback | 446 | OL4410458M |
| 1973 | – | – | 454 | OL58724140M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Right Stuff?
- About 368 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 304 to 701 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Right Stuff?
- About 7 h 05 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
- How many words is The Right Stuff?
- Roughly 101,000 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)).