Reading Level
What is the reading level of The Canterbury Tales ?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Canterbury Tales is 7th and 8th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
The Canterbury Tales
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 11 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
Reading Time
0 hrs 17 mins
How long to read The Canterbury Tales (The Norton Library)?
The estimated word count of The Canterbury Tales (The Norton Library) is 4,030 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 0 hrs 17 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 27 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 9 mins.
| The Canterbury Tales (The Norton Library) - 4,030 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 0 hrs 27 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 0 hrs 17 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 0 hrs 9 mins |
- Authors
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Geoffrey Chaucer
More about The Canterbury Tales
4,030 words
Word Count
for The Canterbury Tales (The Norton Library)
528 pages
Pages
26 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English.