How long does it take to read Happy Days?
a play in two acts
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1961. 64 pages, about 17,600 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Two characters--a woman buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and a man who revolves around the mound in which she is placed--probe the tenuous connections that hold people to people and people to the universe in Happy Days"--Cover.
Subjects: Dramatic production, English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Happy days, Manuscripts, Notebooks, sketchbooks
