The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J.L. Carr
Published 1985 · 176 pages · 44,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Battle of Pollocks Crossing to read?
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing 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
- British vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Household's prose.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- War, community.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- WWII Britain.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- Battle, crossing.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- War observation.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Battle concludes.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How The Battle of Pollocks Crossing is regarded
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing holds a literary regard score of 52 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.