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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Return of the Native, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 517
- Reading time
- ≈ 9 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 15
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Return of the Native?
At 517 pages, The Return of the Native is a long book. Expect about 9 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 19 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 8 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day19 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)8 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 15 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 34
- Checkpoint 2, page 69
- Checkpoint 3, page 103
- Checkpoint 4, page 138
- Checkpoint 5, page 172
- Checkpoint 6, page 207
- Checkpoint 7, page 241
- Checkpoint 8, page 276
- Checkpoint 9, page 310
- Checkpoint 10, page 345
- Checkpoint 11, page 379
- Checkpoint 12, page 414
- Checkpoint 13, page 448
- Checkpoint 14, page 483
- Checkpoint 15, page 517
In Vread, The Return of the Native is split into 15 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 15 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 Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
From which barrow does the first tall flame spring into the sky while the men and lads build their bonfire?
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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