How long does it take to read The Prisoner of Second Avenue?
a new comedy.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon takes about 1 hour 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 36 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1972. 87 pages, about 23,925 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mel Edison is a well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm, which has suddenly hit the skids, and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment being paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives, things can't seem to get any worse...Then he's robbed, and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened to him...
Subjects: Plays, Drama, American drama, Married people, Apartment houses
