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How many pages is The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More?

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl has a median of 225 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 220 to 235 pages.

Median pages
225
16 editions counted
Range
188–280
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
62k
at 275 words per page

How long will it take you?

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Reading time
3 h 58 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.

20025019801990200020101977: 249 pages1977: 225 pages1978: 188 pages1983: 215 pages1988: 228 pages1990: 280 pages1992: 221 pages1993: 239 pages1995: 240 pages2000: 225 pages2000: 225 pages2001: 213 pages2001: 231 pages2011: 234 pages2013: 213 pagesmedian 225
200250198020001977: 249 pages1977: 225 pages1978: 188 pages1983: 215 pages1988: 228 pages1990: 280 pages1992: 221 pages1993: 239 pages1995: 240 pages2000: 225 pages2000: 225 pages2001: 213 pages2001: 231 pages2011: 234 pages2013: 213 pagesmedian 225
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

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
Hardcover23134 h 04 min
Paperback22193 h 54 min

Editions counted

The 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 46 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Puffin BooksPaperback213OL28363976M
2011Penguin Bookspaperback234OL28365511M
2001Puffin BooksPaperback213OL26851263M
2001Alfred A. KnopfHardcover231OL3945363M
2000Puffin BooksPaperback225OL6806435M
2000Puffin Books–225OL23247973M
1995Puffin BooksPaperback240OL7354183M
1993Penguin BooksPaperback239OL7346735M

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Questions

How many pages is The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More?
About 225 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 188 to 280 pages.
How long does it take to read The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More?
About 3 h 58 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 Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More?
Roughly 62,000 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)).