Book · by William Faulkner
How many pages is The Sound and the Fury?
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner has a median of 373 pages across 42 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 321 to 427 pages.
How long will The Sound and the Fury 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 | 368 | 3 | 6 h 29 min |
| Paperback | 272 | 2 | 4 h 48 min |
Editions counted
The 42 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 94 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penguin | Paperback | 321 | OL61065399M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 245 | OL30021190M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL29944740M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL29956024M |
| 2014 | Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. | – | 544 | OL29741668M |
| 2004 | Thorndike Press | – | 471 | OL3309840M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 326 | OL9862516M |
| 1994 | Norton | – | 446 | OL1398221M |
| 1992 | Everyman's Library | Hardcover | 368 | OL8998453M |
| 1992 | Modern Library | – | 348 | OL1743106M |
| 1990 | Vintage Books | – | 326 | OL1888813M |
| 1987 | Norton | – | 417 | OL2391346M |
| 1987 | Vintage Books | – | 378 | OL2739441M |
| 1987 | ISIS Audio Books | Hardcover | 384 | OL9378280M |
| 1985 | Penguin | – | 302 | OL22497924M |
| 1984 | Random House | – | 326 | OL2867349M |
| 1980 | Franklin Library | – | 415 | OL4134197M |
| 1977 | Franklin Library | – | 337 | OL4754380M |
| 1976 | Franklin Library | – | 343 | OL4594784M |
| 1976 | Penguin books | – | 284 | OL24953202M |
| 1967 | McGraw-Hill | – | 427 | OL7308491M |
| 1966 | Chatto & Windus | – | 321 | OL17778459M |
| 1964 | Penguin in association with Chatto & Windus | – | 284 | OL22413151M |
| 1959 | New American Library | Paperback | 224 | OL7459859M |
| 1956 | Random House | – | 249 | OL5255516M |
| 1956 | Modern Library | – | 427 | OL17728510M |
| 1956 | The Modern Library | – | 427 | OL24373231M |
| 1956 | Vintage Books | – | 336 | OL20767295M |
| 1956 | Vintage Books | – | 427 | OL17292347M |
| 1956 | Vintage Books | – | 427 | OL17728517M |
| 1956 | Random House | – | 401 | OL23769812M |
| 1956 | Modern Library | – | 427 | OL15266064M |
| 1956 | Vintage Books | – | 427 | OL17768225M |
| 1956 | Random House | – | 401 | OL5468080M |
| 1956 | Vintage Books | – | 427 | OL24220162M |
| 1956 | Modern Library | – | 427 | OL26885868M |
| 1954 | Chatto and Windus | – | 321 | OL22596814M |
| 1949 | Gallimard | – | 229 | OL20452093M |
| 1946 | Vintage Books | – | 427 | OL17728164M |
| 1931 | Chatto and Windus | – | 321 | OL22739206M |
| 1929 | J. Cape and H. Smith | – | 401 | OL6733106M |
| 1929 | Random House | – | 401 | OL17729431M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Sound and the Fury?
- About 373 pages: that is the median of 42 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 224 to 544 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Sound and the Fury?
- About 6 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
- How many words is The Sound and the Fury?
- Roughly 103,000 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)).