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Book · by Charlotte Perkins Gilman · first published 1981

How many pages is The Yellow Wallpaper?

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has a median of 34 pages across 285 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 28 to 40 pages.

Median pages
34
285 editions counted
Range
16–72
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
0.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
9k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
36 min
At 30 min a day
2 days
At 1 hour a day
1 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

204060801900195020001892: 28 pages1892: 32 pages1899: 70 pages1901: 55 pages1901: 55 pages1973: 63 pages1975: 36 pages1977: 63 pages1981: 64 pages1994: 16 pages1994: 70 pages1996: 62 pages2002: 26 pages2004: 48 pages2004: 20 pages2009: 30 pages2009: 28 pages2010: 30 pages2011: 28 pages2011: 30 pages2011: 30 pages2012: 42 pages2012: 34 pages2013: 32 pages2013: 28 pages2013: 44 pages2013: 34 pages2013: 30 pages2013: 26 pages2013: 28 pages2013: 56 pages2013: 30 pages2013: 24 pages2013: 48 pages2013: 21 pages2013: 36 pages2013: 28 pages2013: 36 pages2013: 26 pages2013: 28 pages2014: 26 pages2014: 40 pages2014: 32 pages2014: 28 pages2014: 36 pages2014: 32 pages2014: 24 pages2014: 44 pages2014: 24 pages2014: 36 pages2014: 36 pages2014: 26 pages2014: 36 pages2014: 40 pages2014: 32 pages2014: 28 pages2014: 28 pages2014: 32 pages2015: 48 pages2015: 26 pages2015: 26 pages2015: 32 pages2015: 30 pages2015: 24 pages2015: 44 pages2015: 64 pages2015: 24 pages2015: 30 pages2015: 26 pages2015: 50 pages2015: 34 pages2015: 32 pages2015: 26 pages2015: 28 pages2015: 26 pages2015: 26 pages2015: 42 pages2015: 32 pages2015: 26 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 32 pages2016: 34 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 28 pages2016: 32 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 30 pages2016: 26 pages2016: 24 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 30 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 26 pages2016: 32 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 30 pages2016: 38 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 40 pages2016: 48 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 24 pages2016: 28 pages2016: 30 pages2016: 28 pages2016: 40 pages2016: 36 pages2016: 28 pages2016: 24 pages2016: 30 pages2016: 56 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 38 pages2017: 30 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 30 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 24 pages2017: 40 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 38 pages2017: 24 pages2017: 34 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 34 pages2017: 44 pages2017: 30 pages2017: 72 pages2017: 22 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 34 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 70 pages2017: 22 pages2017: 32 pages2017: 30 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 34 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 40 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 30 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 42 pages2017: 36 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 22 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 34 pages2017: 40 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 34 pages2017: 26 pages2017: 32 pages2017: 28 pages2017: 24 pages2017: 24 pages2017: 22 pages2017: 28 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 36 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 28 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 28 pages2018: 30 pages2018: 30 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 30 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 28 pages2018: 30 pages2018: 28 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 26 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 42 pages2018: 32 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 50 pages2018: 26 pages2018: 26 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 42 pages2018: 28 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 32 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 44 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 52 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 28 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 32 pages2018: 24 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 30 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 44 pages2018: 34 pages2018: 44 pages2018: 42 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 40 pages2018: 24 pages2019: 36 pages2019: 35 pages2019: 38 pages2020: 45 pages2020: 36 pages2020: 33 pages2020: 36 pages2020: 36 pages2020: 38 pages2020: 36 pages2020: 38 pages2020: 36 pages2020: 36 pages2020: 26 pages2020: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 31 pages2021: 31 pages2021: 25 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 31 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 31 pages2021: 31 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 32 pages2021: 59 pages2021: 64 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 36 pages2021: 31 pagesmedian 34
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Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 285 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 14 more editions were 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 721 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–36OL34218955M
2021Independently Published–36OL34309307M
2021Independently Published–36OL34125575M
2021Independently Published–36OL34350333M
2021Independently Published–31OL34346771M
2021Independently Published–31OL34207750M
2021Independently Published–25OL34329263M
2021Independently Published–36OL34243671M

Questions

How many pages is The Yellow Wallpaper?
About 34 pages: that is the median of 285 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 16 to 72 pages.
How long does it take to read The Yellow Wallpaper?
About 36 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 2 days.
How many words is The Yellow Wallpaper?
Roughly 9,000 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)).