Book · by H. G. Wells
How many pages is The World Set Free?
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells has a median of 248 pages across 54 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 183 to 252 pages.
How long will The World Set Free take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 206 | 2 | 3 h 38 min |
| Paperback | 166 | 13 | 2 h 56 min |
Editions counted
The 54 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 236 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | MIT Press | – | 288 | OL34152597M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 244 | OL34283999M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL34347357M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34359312M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 212 | OL34195221M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL34335255M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 207 | OL34308797M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 212 | OL34198687M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34297897M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 207 | OL34329227M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL34257887M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34301096M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34301370M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34308850M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34305737M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34303578M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL30321184M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL29959214M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 248 | OL34212703M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL30326771M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 139 | OL30277732M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL30336496M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL30350010M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL30327937M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 252 | OL34328651M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 155 | OL30351981M |
| 2019 | Independently Published | – | 139 | OL29865324M |
| 2007 | BiblioBazaar | Paperback | 202 | OL11974848M |
| 2007 | BiblioBazaar | Paperback | 182 | OL9586241M |
| 2007 | 1st World Library - Literary Society | Paperback | 240 | OL9864242M |
| 2007 | Book Tree | Paperback | 152 | OL12314675M |
| 2007 | 1st World Library - Literary Society | Hardcover | 240 | OL11824251M |
| 2007 | Lulu.com | Paperback | 156 | OL11917694M |
| 2006 | Hard Press | Paperback | 136 | OL9665047M |
| 2006 | Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library | Paperback | 128 | OL8963112M |
| 2004 | Kessinger Publishing, LLC | Paperback | 164 | OL8482612M |
| 2003 | IndyPublish.com | Hardcover | 172 | OL9546743M |
| 2003 | IndyPublish.com | Paperback | 172 | OL8402963M |
| 2001 | University of Nebraska Press | – | 166 | OL6790043M |
| 2001 | Bison Books | Paperback | 166 | OL7906395M |
| 2000 | Quiet Vision Pub | Paperback | 252 | OL9336507M |
| 2000 | Quiet Vision Publishing | Paperback | 128 | OL9517662M |
| 1988 | Hogarth | – | 191 | OL21631700M |
| 1976 | Corgi | – | 192 | OL15060793M |
| 1971 | Leisure Books | Paperback | 187 | OL8240884M |
| 1956 | Collins | – | 255 | OL19405232M |
| 1956 | Collins | – | 255 | OL16689287M |
| 1926 | Collins Sons | – | 282 | OL17615581M |
| 1926 | C. Scribner | – | 431 | OL22166193M |
| 1923 | W. Collins | – | 282 | OL20005739M |
| 1914 | E.P. Dutton & company | – | 307 | OL6565711M |
| 1914 | Macmillan | – | 286 | OL23371902M |
| 1914 | E.P. Dutton | – | 307 | OL23362305M |
| – | E.P.Dutton and Co. | – | 308 | OL16412563M |
More by H. G. Wells
- 178 pagesThe Invisible Man
- 122 pagesThe Time Machine
- 221 pagesThe War of the Worlds
- 168 pagesThe Island of Dr. Moreau
- 278 pagesWhen the Sleeper Awakes
- 300 pagesThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
All 9 books by H. G. Wells with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The World Set Free?
- About 248 pages: that is the median of 54 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 128 to 431 pages.
- How long does it take to read The World Set Free?
- About 4 h 22 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is The World Set Free?
- Roughly 68,000 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)).