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Melody
It really depends on what style you're used to. 90% of the book is dialogue, so that in itself might be exhausting for some, easy for others. You have to read the Penguin version. That way you read the original English, but there's plenty of footnotes at the back for when you come across those odd (now extinct) 17th century colloquialisms. Bunyan's English is somewhere between Shakespeare and Austen. Im a huge fan of Hannah More so her essays really well prepared me for that style of language.
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)
I first read it in middle school. You soon get used to the Elisabethan English. Try the audiobook if you're afraid of the language, but any college freshman should be able to handle it.
James McIntosh Jr.
That older English style alone raises the reading level. However, you can find "translations" in more modern English that makes it easier to understand.
Albert Gomperts
I read it first when I was 10 or 11. I didn't understood all the allegories at first but certainly got the general principles. I reread it many times as a young adult
S
I read this in elementary school, 3rd or 4th grade. Was pretty easy then, so I'd say if you can read a newspaper, then you can read this book.
Yoela O.
It really depends on the version, unabridged versions are more difficult to understand than the edited versions.
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