Reading Level
What is the reading level of Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics is 22nd and 23rd grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 22 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 15 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 10 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 8 |
Reading Time
5 hrs 46 mins
How long to read Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics?
The estimated word count of Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics is 86,335 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 46 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 36 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 12 mins.
| Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics - 86,335 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 9 hrs 36 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 46 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 12 mins |
- Authors
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John Milton
More about Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics
86,335 words
Word Count
for Paradise Lost: Penguin Classics
492 pages
Pages
9 hours and 17 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve - the temptation and fall - is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty.A staggering and audacious undertaking - seeking, in Milton's words, to "justify the ways of God to men" - Paradise Lost has been revered since its initial publication, inspiring writers from Mary Shelley to William Wordsworth, and is widely considered to be the greatest poem ever written in the English language.