Book · by Richard Adams · first published 1972
How many pages is Watership Down?
Watership Down by Richard Adams has a median of 478 pages across 35 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 432 to 496 pages.
How long will Watership Down 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 | 461 | 4 | 8 h 08 min |
| Paperback | 478 | 5 | 8 h 26 min |
Editions counted
The 35 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 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 108 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 617 | OL46575498M |
| 2022 | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale | – | 384 | OL37641500M |
| 2022 | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale | – | 384 | OL37642265M |
| 2018 | Scribner | – | 496 | OL29800567M |
| 2014 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 656 | OL28533502M |
| 2012 | Puffin | – | 474 | OL28204138M |
| 2012 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 482 | OL28470645M |
| 2009 | Scribner | – | 496 | OL33977002M |
| 2005 | Tandem Library | Library Binding | 496 | OL11763491M |
| 2005 | Scribner | Paperback | 476 | OL7948567M |
| 2001 | Penguin Books Ltd | paperback | 496 | OL28368112M |
| 2001 | Perennial | Paperback | 479 | OL6796486M |
| 1997 | G.K. Hall | – | 654 | OL1012144M |
| 1996 | Scribner | Hardcover | 448 | OL7721619M |
| 1994 | Buccaneer Books | Hardcover | 474 | OL12189606M |
| 1993 | Viking | – | 478 | OL22643241M |
| 1993 | Puffin Books | – | 496 | OL7353970M |
| 1993 | Avon Books | – | 478 | OL7431101M |
| 1992 | Penguin Books | – | 478 | OL7346339M |
| 1983 | Penguin | – | 431 | OL21143986M |
| 1982 | Allen Lane | – | 478 | OL22393878M |
| 1981 | Charnwood | – | 683 | OL22134771M |
| 1980 | – | – | 434 | OL58736009M |
| 1976 | Penguin | – | 550 | OL22410585M |
| 1975 | Avon Books | – | 478 | OL24223404M |
| 1975 | Mass Market Paperback | Paperback | 478 | OL25940375M |
| 1975 | Avon | – | 429 | OL18433479M |
| 1975 | Avon | Paperback | 478 | OL17837786M |
| 1975 | Rex Collings | – | 413 | OL18144170M |
| 1974 | Macmillan | – | 429 | OL5414435M |
| 1974 | Penguin | – | 478 | OL4288819M |
| 1973 | Puffin Books | – | 480 | OL7352954M |
| 1972 | Puffin Books | – | 430 | OL58633726M |
| 1972 | Rex Collings Ltd | – | 413 | OL5456736M |
| 1972 | Scribner | Hardback | 429 | OL24333082M |
Questions
- How many pages is Watership Down?
- About 478 pages: that is the median of 35 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 384 to 683 pages.
- How long does it take to read Watership Down?
- About 8 h 26 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is Watership Down?
- Roughly 131,000 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)).