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Book · by Arthur Conan Doyle · first published 2005

How many pages is The Valley of Fear?

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle has a median of 208 pages across 105 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 182 to 224 pages.

Median pages
208
105 editions counted
Range
96–396
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
57k
at 275 words per page

How long will The Valley of Fear take you?

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Reading time
3 h 40 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

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100200300400195020001914: 320 pages1914: 320 pages1914: 320 pages1920: 320 pages1920: 320 pages1949: 306 pages1951: 186 pages1960: 192 pages1964: 175 pages1966: 175 pages1966: 175 pages1968: 192 pages1970: 175 pages1974: 189 pages1975: 192 pages1976: 175 pages1976: 189 pages1978: 327 pages1978: 327 pages1980: 240 pages1981: 173 pages1981: 179 pages1988: 207 pages1990: 272 pages1991: 192 pages1993: 234 pages1993: 296 pages1994: 234 pages1994: 320 pages1996: 190 pages2001: 200 pages2002: 176 pages2002: 176 pages2005: 324 pages2006: 213 pages2007: 244 pages2007: 380 pages2007: 172 pages2007: 396 pages2007: 204 pages2007: 217 pages2007: 288 pages2008: 198 pages2009: 175 pages2009: 224 pages2009: 124 pages2010: 120 pages2011: 288 pages2011: 256 pages2014: 118 pages2014: 240 pages2015: 238 pages2016: 240 pages2019: 165 pages2019: 160 pages2019: 213 pages2019: 213 pages2020: 182 pages2020: 216 pages2020: 208 pages2020: 182 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 109 pages2020: 123 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 154 pages2020: 182 pages2020: 180 pages2020: 213 pages2020: 192 pages2021: 198 pages2021: 99 pages2021: 198 pages2021: 246 pages2021: 169 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 199 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 96 pages2021: 198 pages2021: 246 pages2021: 196 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 205 pages2021: 156 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 160 pages2021: 196 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 178 pages2021: 199 pages2021: 199 pages2021: 213 pages2021: 196 pagesmedian 208
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover189103 h 20 min
Paperback210183 h 42 min
Mass market17553 h 05 min

Editions counted

The 105 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 758 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–198OL34304943M
2021Independently Published–99OL34214864M
2021Independently Published–198OL34313896M
2021Independently Published–246OL34290654M
2021Independently Published–169OL34336565M
2021Independently Published–213OL34205730M
2021Independently Published–199OL34285886M
2021Independently Published–213OL34259896M

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Questions

How many pages is The Valley of Fear?
About 208 pages: that is the median of 105 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 96 to 396 pages.
How long does it take to read The Valley of Fear?
About 3 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is The Valley of Fear?
Roughly 57,000 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)).