Book · by Alan Watts · first published 1989
How many pages is The Way of Zen?
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts has a median of 236 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 236 to 252 pages.
How long will The Way of Zen 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 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 31 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Vintage | – | 256 | OL7426316M |
| 1999 | Pantheon Books | Paperback | 236 | OL7699736M |
| 1990 | Arkana | – | 252 | OL18299231M |
| 1989 | Vintage Books | – | 236 | OL22088214M |
| 1989 | Vintage Books | – | 236 | OL2060990M |
| 1966 | Pantheon | – | 236 | OL14884731M |
| 1962 | Penguin | – | 252 | OL20907593M |
| 1957 | Thames and Hudson | – | 236 | OL20806084M |
| 1957 | Pantheon | – | 236 | OL23248813M |
| 1957 | Vintage Books | – | 236 | OL21362407M |
| 1957 | Penguin Books | – | 252 | OL21080755M |
| 1957 | Pantheon | – | 236 | OL28663396M |
| 1957 | Pantheon | – | 236 | OL6222108M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Way of Zen?
- About 236 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 236 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Way of Zen?
- About 4 h 33 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is The Way of Zen?
- Roughly 65,000 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)).