Book · by William Shakespeare · first published 1975
How many pages is Works [37 Plays, 6 Poems, Sonnets]?
Works [37 Plays, 6 Poems, Sonnets] by William Shakespeare has a median of 1,237 pages across 84 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 1,099 to 1,376 pages.
Median pages
1,237
84 editions counted
Range
536–2,464
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
22h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
340k
at 275 words per page
How long will Works [37 Plays, 6 Poems, Sonnets] take you?
Reading time
21 h 48 min
At 30 min a day
44 days
At 1 hour a day
22 days
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 | 1,271 | 28 | 22 h 24 min |
| Paperback | 1,186 | 6 | 20 h 54 min |
Editions counted
The 84 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 21 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 213 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | HarperCollins UK | Paperback | 1,436 | OL9218898M |
| 2007 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | Hardcover | 1,280 | OL12562020M |
| 2004 | Book Sales | Hardcover | 1,400 | OL7993430M |
| 2002 | Geddes & Grosset | paperback | 751 | OL32176534M |
| 1997 | Portland House | paperback | 1,229 | OL7681228M |
| 1996 | Wordsworth Editions | Paperback | 1,263 | OL8978985M |
| 1995 | Leopard Books | – | 1,229 | OL22401520M |
| 1995 | Platinum Press | Unknown Binding | 2,364 | OL8605054M |
| 1994 | Barnes & Noble | Leatherbound | 1,263 | OL8012127M |
| 1994 | Wordsworth Edns. | – | 1,263 | OL22831803M |
| 1994 | Michael O'Mara Books | Hardcover | 1,022 | OL22840416M |
| 1993 | Gramercy | Hardcover | 1,248 | OL7675924M |
| 1993 | Parragon | Paperback | 1,142 | OL21132358M |
| 1992 | Michael OMara Books Ltd | paperback | 1,022 | OL34532305M |
| 1991 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL23771473M |
| 1990 | Gramercy | Leather-bound | 1,248 | OL7673543M |
| 1989 | Running Press Book Publishers | – | 1,421 | OL2061671M |
| 1989 | MetroBooks | Hardcover | 1,280 | OL8821407M |
| 1988 | Time-Life | – | 1,024 | OL21640008M |
| 1987 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 1,176 | OL7381881M |
| 1987 | Oxford University Press, USA | Leather-bound | 1,176 | OL10126382M |
| 1987 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 1,174 | OL10126383M |
| 1986 | Greenwich House | – | 2,364 | OL22483734M |
| 1984 | Orbis | – | 2,464 | OL20262610M |
| 1984 | Oxford University Press | Hardcover | 1,164 | OL7382191M |
| 1984 | Random House Value Publishing | Hardcover | 2,364 | OL7685941M |
| 1984 | Chatham River Press | – | 1,227 | OL2850447M |
| 1983 | Collins Liturgical Books | Hardcover | 1,408 | OL9211721M |
| 1983 | Greenwich House | Hardcover | 2,364 | OL3504694M |
| 1983 | Gramercy Books | Hardcover | 2,364 | OL7703810M |
| 1979 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL20747540M |
| 1979 | Park Lane | Hardcover | 2,412 | OL4736992M |
| 1979 | Gramercy Books | Hardcover | 2,364 | OL7681349M |
| 1975 | Avenel Books | Hardcover | 1,229 | OL5063166M |
| 1975 | Avenel Books | Hardcover | 1,229 | OL32278239M |
| 1971 | Oxford University Press | Hardcover | 1,176 | OL7382171M |
| 1971 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL18441916M |
| 1970 | Spring Books | Hardcover | 1,081 | OL24375857M |
| 1964 | Ams Pr Inc | – | 1,079 | OL7473460M |
| 1960 | World Pub. Co. | – | 1,173 | OL5975695M |
| 1958 | Spring Books | – | 1,081 | OL13571348M |
| 1955 | Oxford University Press | – | 1,164 | OL6194503M |
| 1954 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL19448710M |
| 1953 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL19506766M |
| 1952 | Winston | – | 1,344 | OL6109629M |
| 1951 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL22824921M |
| 1951 | Collins | – | 1,376 | OL22276294M |
| 1944 | The Blakiston company | – | 1,527 | OL6480260M |
| 1942 | Houghton Mifflin company | – | 1,420 | OL15955365M |
| 1938 | Oxford University Press | Library Binding | 1,279 | OL13571716M |
| 1938 | Oxford University Press | Hardcover | 1,263 | OL6398578M |
| 1937 | Walter Black | Hardcover | 1,312 | OL24938415M |
| 1937 | Black's Readers Service Co. | Hardcover | 1,312 | OL24963982M |
| 1934 | Printed for the Shakespeare head press and pub. by Oxford u | – | 1,263 | OL6310373M |
| 1931 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 1,420 | OL6765439M |
| 1927 | Funk & Wagnalls company | – | 1,097 | OL6406575M |
| 1926 | The John C. Winston company | – | 1,332 | OL6694886M |
| 1925 | Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press | Hardcover | 1,352 | OL24958769M |
| 1925 | P.F. Collier & Son Co. | – | 1,312 | OL17607598M |
| 1923 | Collins Clear-Type Press | – | 1,312 | OL18078240M |
| 1923 | Collins Clear-type Press | Hardcover | 1,312 | OL22878052M |
| 1914 | Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. | Library Binding | 1,097 | OL32400956M |
| 1911 | Macmillan and Co. | – | 1,211 | OL573943M |
| 1910 | Houghton Mifflin | – | 1,237 | OL19681179M |
| 1906 | Houghton, Mifflin and company | – | 1,237 | OL16472718M |
| 1905 | Oxford University Press | – | 1,164 | OL17636522M |
| 1904 | Sands & Co. | – | 1,128 | OL13834740M |
| 1897 | New Amsterdam Book Co. | – | 1,111 | OL24650404M |
| 1896 | Bliss Sands | Hardcover | 1,099 | OL26321902M |
| 1896 | Eyre & Spottiswoode | – | 1,085 | OL24650785M |
| 1891 | Macmillan | – | 1,138 | OL6905312M |
| 1888 | The Amies Publishing Company | – | 1,539 | OL22628869M |
| 1887 | Macmillllan & Co. | Hardcover | 1,054 | OL26577706M |
| 1881 | E. Claxton & Company | – | 896 | OL20981086M |
| 1880 | Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger | – | 896 | OL15954767M |
| 1879 | Claxton, Remson & Haffelfinger | – | 896 | OL7221128M |
| 1879 | Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger | – | 896 | OL6621706M |
| 1878 | Diprose & Bateman | – | 708 | OL21256931M |
| 1878 | Macmillan and Co. | Hardcover | 1,075 | OL26241879M |
| 1878 | David McKay, Publishers | – | 896 | OL17625188M |
| 1865 | Macmillan | – | 536 | OL5349852M |
| – | Abbey Library | – | 1,099 | OL23267782M |
| – | D. McKay | – | 896 | OL24735656M |
| – | Murray's Sales & Service Co. | Hardcover | 1,100 | OL24965312M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Works [37 Plays, 6 Poems, Sonnets]?
- About 1,237 pages: that is the median of 84 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 536 to 2,464 pages.
- How long does it take to read Works [37 Plays, 6 Poems, Sonnets]?
- About 21 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 44 days.
- How many words is Works [37 Plays, 6 Poems, Sonnets]?
- Roughly 340,000 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)).