How long does it take to read Not About Nightingales?
Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams takes about 2 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 59 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1998. 163 pages, about 44,825 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.
Subjects: Drama, Prisoners, Hunger strikes, Prisons
