Book · by Iain Banks
How many pages is The Wasp Factory?
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks has a median of 184 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 184 to 256 pages.
How long will The Wasp Factory 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 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 28 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 256 | OL33397947M |
| 2001 | Little, Brown | Hardcover | 256 | OL9594527M |
| 1998 | Scribner Paperback Fiction | – | 184 | OL349126M |
| 1992 | Abacus | Paperback | 256 | OL9720768M |
| 1985 | Futura | – | 184 | OL16688155M |
| 1984 | Macmillan | – | 184 | OL21699721M |
| 1984 | Macmillan | – | 184 | OL16963500M |
| 1984 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 184 | OL2842635M |
More by Iain Banks
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All 7 books by Iain Banks with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The Wasp Factory?
- About 184 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 184 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Wasp Factory?
- About 3 h 15 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is The Wasp Factory?
- Roughly 51,000 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)).