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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (A moral and amorous tale)
by Jorge Amado
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (A moral and amorous tale), and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 717
- Reading time
- ≈ 13 h
- Checkpoints
- 20
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (A moral and amorous tale)?
At 717 pages, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (A moral and amorous tale) is a doorstopper. Expect about 13 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 26 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 10 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 day26 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)10 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 20 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 72
- Checkpoint 3, page 108
- Checkpoint 4, page 143
- Checkpoint 5, page 179
- Checkpoint 6, page 215
- Checkpoint 7, page 251
- Checkpoint 8, page 287
- Checkpoint 9, page 323
- Checkpoint 10, page 359
- Checkpoint 11, page 394
- Checkpoint 12, page 430
- Checkpoint 13, page 466
- Checkpoint 14, page 502
- Checkpoint 15, page 538
- Checkpoint 16, page 574
- Checkpoint 17, page 609
- Checkpoint 18, page 645
- Checkpoint 19, page 681
- Checkpoint 20, page 717
In Vread, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (A moral and amorous tale) is split into 20 checkpoints, one every 36 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 20 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.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
This is not a question from Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (A moral and amorous tale): to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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