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Author · born 26 March 1911 · died 25 February 1983

Tennessee Williams books: page counts

4 books by Tennessee Williams with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
4
with page data
Longest
158
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Shortest
95
Summer and Smoke

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Glass Menagerie (1945)115A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)144Summer and Smoke (1948)95Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)158
The Glass Menagerie …115A Streetcar Named De…144Summer and Smoke (19…95Cat on a Hot Tin Roo…158
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Glass Menagerie194511564–1622 h 02 min
A Streetcar Named Desire194714496–2242 h 46 min
Summer and Smoke19489580–1301 h 50 min
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof195515885–2083 h 03 min

Reading all 4 takes about 9 h 40 min at average speed (512 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).