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Adam Bede
by George Eliot
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Adam Bede, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 778
- Reading time
- ≈ 14 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 22
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Adam Bede?
At 778 pages, Adam Bede is a doorstopper. Expect about 14 hours 10 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 29 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 11 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day29 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)11 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 22 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 35
- Checkpoint 2, page 71
- Checkpoint 3, page 106
- Checkpoint 4, page 141
- Checkpoint 5, page 177
- Checkpoint 6, page 212
- Checkpoint 7, page 248
- Checkpoint 8, page 283
- Checkpoint 9, page 318
- Checkpoint 10, page 354
- Checkpoint 11, page 389
- Checkpoint 12, page 424
- Checkpoint 13, page 460
- Checkpoint 14, page 495
- Checkpoint 15, page 530
- Checkpoint 16, page 566
- Checkpoint 17, page 601
- Checkpoint 18, page 637
- Checkpoint 19, page 672
- Checkpoint 20, page 707
- Checkpoint 21, page 743
- Checkpoint 22, page 778
In Vread, Adam Bede is split into 22 checkpoints, one every 35 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 22 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
Adam Bede, George Eliot
Near which tree on the Green are the Methodists gathered when the traveller stops his horse to look at the village?
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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