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Word count is commonly used by translators to determine the price of a translation job. Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing and reading speeds (usually in words per minute). When converting character counts to words, a measure of 5 or 6 characters to a word is generally used for English. [1]
[3] [4] A market for children's fantasy was established in Britain in the 19th century, [5] leading to works such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Edith Nesbit's Five Children series; [6] the genre also developed in America, exemplified by L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. [7]
In this system, reading text is classified according to various parameters, such as word count, number of different words, number of high-frequency words, sentence length, sentence complexity, word repetitions, illustration support, etc. While classification is guided by these parameters, syllable type, an important consideration in beginning ...
The book has been seen as widely influential within the genre of fantasy. Margaret Atwood has called A Wizard of Earthsea one of the "wellsprings" of fantasy literature. [3] The book has been compared to major works of high fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings [5] [50] and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The Immortals is the 10th book of The Edge Chronicles and was released on 5 February 2009 in the United Kingdom and 14 September 2010 in the United States and Canada. The book introduces the Third Age of Flight and the character Nate Quarter, and serves as a conclusion to the Quint, Twig and Rook sagas.
Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and of the wider Riftwar Cycle. Magician was originally published in 1982. The book is set in a Dungeons & Dragons–style fantasy world called Midkemia, originally invented by Feist and his friends during college. The story follows the ...
The Last Dragon Chronicles is a series of seven children's fantasy novels written by Chris d'Lacey. The books follow a college student, David Rain, as he discovers the existence of living clay dragons in the house he lodges at. This series currently includes the novels: The Fire Within (2001) Icefire (2003) Fire Star (2005) The Fire Eternal (2007)
The lists of fantasy novels has been divided into the following three parts: List of fantasy novels (A–H) List of fantasy novels (I–R) List of fantasy novels (S–Z)