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Bartleby and Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Bartleby and Benito Cereno, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 169
- Reading time
- ≈ 3 h
- Checkpoints
- 5
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read Bartleby and Benito Cereno?
At 169 pages, Bartleby and Benito Cereno is a medium-length book. Expect about 3 hours 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 7 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 3 reading days. For a book of this length (under 250 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day7 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)3 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 5 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 34
- Checkpoint 2, page 68
- Checkpoint 3, page 101
- Checkpoint 4, page 135
- Checkpoint 5, page 169
In Vread, Bartleby and Benito Cereno is split into 5 checkpoints, one every 34 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 5 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
Bartleby and Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
What is the only food that Bartleby eats, delivered to his hermitage by Ginger Nut?
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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