The Torment of Phaedra by Henri Deberly
Published 1926 · 251 pages · 55,276 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Drama
How hard is The Torment of Phaedra to read?
The Torment of Phaedra scores 54 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: 55 out of 100
- Classical and French vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Literary prose style.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Passion and guilt.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Classical retelling.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- Classical perspective.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Phaedra mythology.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Tragic distance.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Known tragic end.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Classical adaptation.
How The Torment of Phaedra is regarded
The Torment of Phaedra holds a literary regard score of 48 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.