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Fedele ed altri racconti: reading level, length and free edition
Fedele ed altri racconti by Antonio Fogazzaro is a short stories in Italian. Our team rates it B2. It runs to 34,707 words with 6,920 different word forms, about 3–6 h of reading at 200 to 100 words per minute, and it is free from Project Gutenberg.
- Author
- Antonio Fogazzaro
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- B2
- Form
- short stories
- Words
- 34,707
- Different word forms
- 6,920
- Forms for 95% / 98%
- 5,185 / 6,226
- Reading time
- 3–6 h
- Free edition
- Project Gutenberg
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Is Fedele ed altri racconti right for your level?
To recognise 95% of the running words in Fedele ed altri racconti, you need its 5,185 most frequent word forms; for 98%, the share at which most readers manage a novel without a dictionary, 6,226. The median Italian B2 book in our table needs 5,871 forms for 95%, so by this measure the book is typical for its level: number 4 of 11, easiest first.
A word form is any spelling that appears in the text, so “walk” and “walked” count twice, and names count too. These numbers are a guide to how much vocabulary the book asks for, not a test. The level itself was set by hand by our team. Before you commit, read one page of the free edition and count the words you do not know: the one-page test takes two minutes.
Which words should you know before you start?
These are the words that Fedele ed altri racconti uses most often but that are not among the 2,000 most common word forms across all 20 Italian books in our library; the number is how many times each appears. Names of people and places are left out. Learning a handful of them first makes the opening chapters easier.
- canotto 18
- mica 16
- lire 15
- papà 14
- contessa 14
- cipiglio 14
- scusi 13
- salotto 12
- ballo 12
- palpebre 12
- cipressi 11
- ripeteva 11
- inchino 11
- confessione 11
- stasera 10
How does it begin?
Animato dal cortese signor Chiesa a raccogliere in un volume sette mie novelle, pensai di frapporvi alcune poesie a modo d’intermezzi, com’è uso trattenere gli spettatori, fra un atto di commedia e l’altro, con qualche breve pezzo di musica.
From the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain. If this paragraph already feels slow, try a book one level lower.
How long does it take to read?
| Words | 100 wpm | 150 wpm | 200 wpm | 250 wpm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34,707 | 6 h | 4 h | 3 h | 2.5 h |
Learners reading a book at their level often manage 100 to 150 words per minute, and readers in their first language 200 to 250. Where these speeds come from, and a calculator for your own: How long does it take to read a book?
Where can you read it for free?
The free edition is Project Gutenberg eBook #57082. Project Gutenberg publishes books that are in the public domain in the United States, as EPUB, Kindle and plain text, free and without an account. Copyright terms differ by country: if you live outside the United States, check that the book is out of copyright where you are before you download it.
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What to read next at B2
Italian books at the same level that ask for a similar amount of vocabulary:
- Vecchie storie d’amore, Adolfo Albertazzi: 27,951 words, 4,783 forms for 95%
- Documenti Umani, Federico De Roberto: 58,657 words, 7,314 forms for 95%
- Il mistero del poeta, Antonio Fogazzaro: 60,698 words, 5,718 forms for 95%
- Dopo il divorzio, Grazia Deledda: 56,909 words, 5,871 forms for 95%
- L’infedele, Matilde Serao: 24,283 words, 4,010 forms for 95%
- I Robinson italiani, Emilio Salgari: 67,116 words, 6,377 forms for 95%
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