Book · by Simone de Beauvoir · first published 1968
How many pages is The Second Sex?
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir has a median of 732 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 705 to 800 pages.
How long will The Second Sex take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 90 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Penguin Random House | – | 864 | OL28543580M |
| 2011 | Penguin Random House | – | 848 | OL28434444M |
| 2011 | Vintage | paperback | 832 | OL31939655M |
| 2010 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 800 | OL24533255M |
| 2009 | Jonathan Cape | – | 822 | OL25406454M |
| 1993 | Alfred A. Knopf | – | 786 | OL1745004M |
| 1989 | Vintage | Paperback | 800 | OL7699824M |
| 1983 | Penguin Books | – | 762 | OL20897846M |
| 1979 | Franklin Library | – | 714 | OL4465675M |
| 1974 | Vintage Books | – | 814 | OL5044339M |
| 1972 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 768 | OL40334318M |
| 1971 | Knopf | – | 732 | OL16790382M |
| 1971 | Knopf | – | 732 | OL23794835M |
| 1968 | Modern Library | – | 732 | OL14059140M |
| 1968 | Modern Library | – | 782 | OL21087817M |
| 1964 | Bantam Books | – | 705 | OL22221847M |
| 1964 | Knopf | – | 732 | OL19377312M |
| 1961 | Bantam Books | – | 705 | OL17453816M |
| 1960 | Landsborough | – | 416 | OL21758834M |
| 1957 | Knopf | – | 732 | OL13530144M |
| 1953 | Knopf | – | 732 | OL6110335M |
| 1953 | Cape | – | 702 | OL18754656M |
| 1949 | Gallimard | – | 577 | OL16496638M |
| 1949 | Gallimard | – | 395 | OL20171724M |
| – | Cape | – | 702 | OL19912588M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Second Sex?
- About 732 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 395 to 864 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Second Sex?
- About 14 h 06 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 29 days.
- How many words is The Second Sex?
- Roughly 201,000 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)).