![]() ![]() The survey, as Alison Flood reports for the Guardian, was led by education software company Renaissance U.K., which judged works’ complexity based on sentence length, average word length and vocabulary level. ![]() The Grapes of Wrath, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also penned by Steinbeck, scores just marginally higher, receiving a rating of 4.9. Greedy comes in close on its heels at 4.4. Of Mice and Men boasts a difficulty score of 4.6, while Mr. ![]() Greedy, a children’s book detailing the gluttonous tendencies of its wobbly, hot pink protagonist.īut the texts actually do share one key characteristic: According to a new analysis that rates more than 33,000 books’ “readability” on a scale of 0.2 to 13.5, Hargreaves’ tale is nearly as difficult to read as Steinbeck’s meditation on Dust Bowl migration in the 1930s. At first glance, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men-a classic account of migrant workers struggling to survive the Great Depression-doesn’t seem to have much in common with Roger Hargreaves’ Mr. ![]()
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