Book · by Tennessee Williams · first published 1947
How many pages is A Streetcar Named Desire?
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams has a median of 144 pages across 31 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 114 to 186 pages.
How long will A Streetcar Named Desire take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 162 | 2 | 3 h 08 min |
| Paperback | 147 | 2 | 2 h 50 min |
| Mass market | 142 | 2 | 2 h 44 min |
Editions counted
The 31 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 69 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Hodder Education Group | – | 112 | OL28577279M |
| 2015 | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | – | 200 | OL29249266M |
| 2015 | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | – | 200 | OL29249263M |
| 2011 | Perfection Learning Corporation | – | 192 | OL29679502M |
| 2009 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 128 | OL28439971M |
| 2009 | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | – | 208 | OL29049760M |
| 2004 | Turtleback Books | – | 192 | OL35344686M |
| 2004 | New Directions Publishing Corporation | – | 224 | OL29666346M |
| 2004 | New Directions | – | 192 | OL3292907M |
| 1995 | Heinemann Educational Publishers | Hardcover | 146 | OL7508326M |
| 1989 | Penguin Random House | – | 112 | OL28945327M |
| 1986 | Signet | – | 144 | OL7573032M |
| 1982 | Limited Editions Club | – | 202 | OL2316744M |
| 1981 | Dramatists Play Service Inc. | – | 107 | OL21556175M |
| 1981 | Dramatists Play Service | – | 107 | OL23122270M |
| 1980 | New Directions | Paperback | 179 | OL14989357M |
| 1975 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 142 | OL19644695M |
| 1975 | Verlag Moritz Diesterweg GmbH & Co., Frankfurt am Main. | Paperback | 115 | OL30527166M |
| 1974 | New Directions | – | 179 | OL22164133M |
| 1957 | Secker & Warburg | – | 96 | OL19767050M |
| 1953 | Dramatists Play Service | – | 107 | OL6130309M |
| 1952 | John Lehmann | – | 119 | OL31438390M |
| 1949 | John Lehmann | – | 112 | OL2460367M |
| 1947 | New American Library | – | 142 | OL24935137M |
| 1947 | New Directions | – | 166 | OL16937656M |
| 1947 | New Directions | – | 171 | OL6029627M |
| 1947 | New Directions | – | 171 | OL17755487M |
| 1947 | New American Library | – | 142 | OL20200470M |
| 1947 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 142 | OL18203184M |
| 1947 | New Directions | Hardcover | 179 | OL22350177M |
| 1947 | J. Lehmann | – | 112 | OL19837705M |
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Questions
- How many pages is A Streetcar Named Desire?
- About 144 pages: that is the median of 31 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 96 to 224 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Streetcar Named Desire?
- About 2 h 46 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
- How many words is A Streetcar Named Desire?
- Roughly 40,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
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)).