Book · by Stephen King · first published 1987
How many pages is The Talisman?
The Talisman by Stephen King has a median of 770 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 742 to 904 pages.
How long will The Talisman 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 | 648 | 4 | 11 h 25 min |
| Paperback | 776 | 2 | 13 h 41 min |
| Mass market | 768 | 3 | 13 h 32 min |
Editions counted
The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 66 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Gallery Books | paperback | 769 | OL27977249M |
| 2012 | Pocket Books | – | 944 | OL29653933M |
| 2012 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 992 | OL28481937M |
| 2012 | Pocket Books | – | 944 | OL28769315M |
| 2012 | Scribner | – | 784 | OL28777544M |
| 2008 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 992 | OL53245244M |
| 2003 | Donald M. Grant, Publishers | Hardcover | 734 | OL25191208M |
| 2001 | Random House | Hardcover | 652 | OL3950009M |
| 2001 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 768 | OL9527447M |
| 1996 | New English Library Ltd | Paperback | 784 | OL10627038M |
| 1991 | Demco Media | Turtleback | 770 | OL10924622M |
| 1987 | Berkley | – | 784 | OL7502870M |
| 1985 | Berkley Books | mass market paperback | 768 | OL24957284M |
| 1985 | Penguin Books | mass market paperback | 768 | OL31390378M |
| 1984 | Viking | – | 644 | OL53066536M |
| 1984 | Viking / G.P. Putnam's Sons | Hardcover | 644 | OL26532576M |
| 1984 | Viking G. P. Putnam's Sons | hardcover | 644 | OL3185354M |
| 1925 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 992 | OL53238673M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Talisman?
- About 770 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 644 to 992 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Talisman?
- About 13 h 34 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 28 days.
- How many words is The Talisman?
- Roughly 212,000 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)).