Book · by Stephen King · first published 1978
How many pages is The Stand?
The Stand by Stephen King has a median of 834 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 823 to 1,157 pages.
How long will The Stand 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 | 988 | 2 | 17 h 25 min |
| Paperback | 1,200 | 3 | 21 h 09 min |
| Mass market | 1,304 | 2 | 22 h 59 min |
Editions counted
The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 87 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Anchor Books | paperback | 1,200 | OL32937673M |
| 2014 | Anchor Books | Mass Market Paperback | 1,440 | OL26628068M |
| 2014 | Anchor Books | paperback | 1,153 | OL28202057M |
| 2007 | Hodder | Paperback | 1,344 | OL20402389M |
| 2002 | Signet | – | 1,168 | OL7573106M |
| 2001 | Gramercy Books | – | 1,153 | OL3943235M |
| 2000 | Random House | – | 794 | OL20175473M |
| 1994 | Signet | mass market paperback | 1,168 | OL7573468M |
| 1990 | Doubleday | hardcover | 1,153 | OL2205542M |
| 1980 | New English Library | – | 736 | OL16493145M |
| 1980 | New American Library | – | 817 | OL24964880M |
| 1979 | New English Library | – | 823 | OL15048482M |
| 1979 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 734 | OL53233289M |
| 1978 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 844 | OL53125450M |
| 1978 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 823 | OL43135476M |
| 1978 | Doubleday | – | 846 | OL58142869M |
| 1978 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | Hardcover | 823 | OL25159731M |
| 1978 | Doubleday | – | 823 | OL4548630M |
| 1978 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 823 | OL53065352M |
| 1978 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | – | 823 | OL42954494M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Stand?
- About 834 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 734 to 1,440 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Stand?
- About 14 h 42 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 30 days.
- How many words is The Stand?
- Roughly 229,000 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)).