Ashes by Grazia Deledda
Published 1904 · 232 pages · 96,000 words · about 11 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Ashes to read?
Ashes scores 41 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 35 out of 100
- Clear contemporary prose.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Accessible sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Questions emerge through story.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Efficiently conveyed.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Shows rather than tells.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Title carries weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Balanced perspective.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Open ending.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Straightforward structure.
How Ashes is regarded
Ashes holds a literary regard score of 61 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.