The Burning Library: Essays by Edmund White
Published 1995 · 114,400 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Burning Library: Essays to read?
The Burning Library: Essays 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: 60 out of 100
- Literary-critical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Elegant essayistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Criticism and reportage mixed.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Two decades of pieces, uneven by nature.
How The Burning Library: Essays is regarded
The Burning Library: Essays holds a literary regard score of 51 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.