Book · by John le Carré · first published 1963
How many pages is The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré has a median of 240 pages across 32 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 219 to 258 pages.
How long will The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 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 | 256 | 5 | 4 h 31 min |
| Paperback | 232 | 4 | 4 h 05 min |
| Mass market | 219 | 3 | 3 h 52 min |
Editions counted
The 32 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 144 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 416 | OL57552661M |
| 2016 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 272 | OL33308993M |
| 2013 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 288 | OL34487155M |
| 2011 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 288 | OL34464888M |
| 2009 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 272 | OL34420271M |
| 2009 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 272 | OL34422165M |
| 2006 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 240 | OL34418888M |
| 2005 | Walker & Company | Hardcover | 256 | OL7876884M |
| 2001 | Penguin Canada | – | 219 | OL22618146M |
| 2001 | Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. | Paperback | 212 | OL31896405M |
| 1994 | Coronet | – | 219 | OL22492824M |
| 1992 | Ballantine Books | – | 248 | OL22365800M |
| 1992 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 256 | OL9819436M |
| 1990 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 190 | OL22627046M |
| 1989 | Penguin Books | – | 219 | OL20895765M |
| 1984 | Bantam | Mass Market Paperback | 219 | OL7823297M |
| 1981 | Pan Books | Paperback | 240 | OL51477788M |
| 1980 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 224 | OL34412326M |
| 1980 | Pan Macmillan | Paperback | 240 | OL28152344M |
| 1980 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 219 | OL7820907M |
| 1978 | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | – | 256 | OL4715482M |
| 1977 | Thornes | – | 128 | OL22217128M |
| 1976 | Ulverscroft | – | 382 | OL23070814M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | – | 219 | OL19015565M |
| 1968 | Gollancz | – | 222 | OL20837208M |
| 1965 | Dell | Paperback | 223 | OL18707177M |
| 1964 | Gollancz | Hardcover | 222 | OL21441123M |
| 1964 | Coward-McCann | Hardcover | 256 | OL22188412M |
| 1964 | Coward-McCann | – | 256 | OL5909204M |
| 1964 | Coward-McCann | Hardcover | 256 | OL23249749M |
| 1963 | Gollancz | Hardcover | 222 | OL51477762M |
| 1963 | Coward-McCann, Inc | – | 262 | OL50299923M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
- About 240 pages: that is the median of 32 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 128 to 416 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
- About 4 h 14 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
- Roughly 66,000 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).