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Wolf Hall (The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 1)
by Hilary Mantel
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Wolf Hall (The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 1), and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 817
- Reading time
- ≈ 14 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 23
- Genre
- Historical
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Wolf Hall (The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 1)?
At 817 pages, Wolf Hall (The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 1) is a doorstopper. Expect about 14 hours 50 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 30 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 12 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 day30 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)12 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 23 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 71
- Checkpoint 3, page 107
- Checkpoint 4, page 142
- Checkpoint 5, page 178
- Checkpoint 6, page 213
- Checkpoint 7, page 249
- Checkpoint 8, page 284
- Checkpoint 9, page 320
- Checkpoint 10, page 355
- Checkpoint 11, page 391
- Checkpoint 12, page 426
- Checkpoint 13, page 462
- Checkpoint 14, page 497
- Checkpoint 15, page 533
- Checkpoint 16, page 568
- Checkpoint 17, page 604
- Checkpoint 18, page 639
- Checkpoint 19, page 675
- Checkpoint 20, page 710
- Checkpoint 21, page 746
- Checkpoint 22, page 781
- Checkpoint 23, page 817
In Vread, Wolf Hall (The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 1) is split into 23 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 23 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 Wolf Hall (The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 1): to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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