Book · by Milan Kundera · first published 1997
How many pages is The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera has a median of 314 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 314 pages.
How long will The Unbearable Lightness of Being 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 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 81 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | HarperCollins | – | 314 | OL3382996M |
| 1999 | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | – | 320 | OL7285084M |
| 1999 | Faber and Faber | Paperback | 311 | OL22145099M |
| 1995 | Faber | – | 305 | OL22388780M |
| 1991 | HarperPerennial | – | 314 | OL16763458M |
| 1988 | Harpercollins | – | 314 | OL7284291M |
| 1985 | Harper & Row | – | 314 | OL32150408M |
| 1984 | Faber and Faber | – | 314 | OL22500065M |
| 1984 | Harper & Row | – | 314 | OL3187189M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
- About 314 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 305 to 320 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
- About 5 h 32 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
- Roughly 86,000 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)).