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A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth -(Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Charles Dickens
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth -(Barnes & Noble Classics Series), and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 367
- Reading time
- ≈ 6 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 11
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth -(Barnes & Noble Classics Series)?
At 367 pages, A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth -(Barnes & Noble Classics Series) is a fairly long book. Expect about 6 hours 40 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 14 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 6 reading days. For a book of this length (250 to 399 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4.7 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day14 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)6 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 11 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 33
- Checkpoint 2, page 67
- Checkpoint 3, page 100
- Checkpoint 4, page 133
- Checkpoint 5, page 167
- Checkpoint 6, page 200
- Checkpoint 7, page 234
- Checkpoint 8, page 267
- Checkpoint 9, page 300
- Checkpoint 10, page 334
- Checkpoint 11, page 367
In Vread, A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth -(Barnes & Noble Classics Series) is split into 11 checkpoints, one every 33 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 11 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Example: the checkpoint 1 question
A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth -(Barnes & Noble Classics Series), Charles Dickens
What does Scrooge accuse the Ghost of Christmas Present of wanting to shut down on Sundays?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
Public-domain work. The answer, and the following questions, unlock in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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