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The Piazza Tales
by Herman Melville
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Piazza Tales, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 292
- Reading time
- ≈ 5 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 9
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read The Piazza Tales?
At 292 pages, The Piazza Tales is a medium-length book. Expect about 5 hours 20 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 11 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 5 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 day11 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)5 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 9 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 32
- Checkpoint 2, page 65
- Checkpoint 3, page 97
- Checkpoint 4, page 130
- Checkpoint 5, page 162
- Checkpoint 6, page 195
- Checkpoint 7, page 227
- Checkpoint 8, page 260
- Checkpoint 9, page 292
In Vread, The Piazza Tales is split into 9 checkpoints, one every 32 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 9 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
The Piazza Tales, Herman Melville
What type of tree, struck by lightning, cast the shadow that used to soothe Marianna's weariness?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
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Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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