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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Middlemarch, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 880
- Reading time
- ≈ 16 h
- Checkpoints
- 32
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read Middlemarch?
At 880 pages, Middlemarch is a doorstopper. Expect about 16 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 32 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 13 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 day32 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)13 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 32 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 28
- Checkpoint 2, page 55
- Checkpoint 3, page 83
- Checkpoint 4, page 110
- Checkpoint 5, page 138
- Checkpoint 6, page 165
- Checkpoint 7, page 193
- Checkpoint 8, page 220
- Checkpoint 9, page 248
- Checkpoint 10, page 275
- Checkpoint 11, page 303
- Checkpoint 12, page 330
- Checkpoint 13, page 358
- Checkpoint 14, page 385
- Checkpoint 15, page 413
- Checkpoint 16, page 440
- Checkpoint 17, page 468
- Checkpoint 18, page 495
- Checkpoint 19, page 523
- Checkpoint 20, page 550
- Checkpoint 21, page 578
- Checkpoint 22, page 605
- Checkpoint 23, page 633
- Checkpoint 24, page 660
- Checkpoint 25, page 688
- Checkpoint 26, page 715
- Checkpoint 27, page 743
- Checkpoint 28, page 770
- Checkpoint 29, page 798
- Checkpoint 30, page 825
- Checkpoint 31, page 853
- Checkpoint 32, page 880
In Vread, Middlemarch is split into 32 checkpoints, one every 28 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 32 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
Middlemarch, George Eliot
What is the name of the horse that Sir James offers to send over for Dorothea Brooke to ride?
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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