How long does it take to read The Glass Menagerie?
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams takes about 2 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 1 minute
An evening's read
First published 1945. 110 pages, about 30,250 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 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 57 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first great popular success. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and enjoyed a long Broadway run with the incomparable Laurette Taylor in the starring role. Since then it has become one of the most-performed plays in the repertory of American community theaters.
Subjects: memory plays, autobiographical drama, Family, American drama, Fiction, Drama
