The People of the Sea by Marc Elder
Published 1913 · 126 pages · 58,750 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The People of the Sea to read?
The People of the Sea scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 52 out of 100
- Breton maritime vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Lyrical descriptive prose.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Sea and community.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Breton fishing life.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- Third-person community.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Sea as destiny.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Sympathetic observation.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Community cycles.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Community portrait.
How The People of the Sea is regarded
The People of the Sea holds a literary regard score of 55 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.