Book · by Richard Dawkins · first published 1995
How many pages is The Selfish Gene?
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins has a median of 352 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 288 to 384 pages.
How long will The Selfish Gene 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 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 42 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Oxford University Press | Paperback | 496 | OL28000467M |
| 2006 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 384 | OL7405449M |
| 2006 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 384 | OL7405450M |
| 1999 | Oxford University Press | – | 352 | OL24219315M |
| 1989 | Oxford University Press | – | 352 | OL2196440M |
| 1978 | Oxford University Press | – | 224 | OL4554174M |
| 1976 | Oxford University Press | – | 224 | OL4588623M |
More by Richard Dawkins
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All 5 books by Richard Dawkins with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Selfish Gene?
- About 352 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 224 to 496 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Selfish Gene?
- About 6 h 47 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
- How many words is The Selfish Gene?
- Roughly 97,000 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)).