How long does it take to read Our Town?
a play in three acts
Our Town by Thornton Wilder takes about 2 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 21 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1938. 128 pages, about 35,200 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.
Subjects: Death, Scripts, Drama, Young women, City and town life
