The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
Published 1973 · 82,225 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Conquest of Bread to read?
The Conquest of Bread scores 52 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
- Nineteenth-century political vocabulary, plainly used.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Rhetorical but readable sentences, written to be spoken.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Practical proposals resting on a large abstract argument.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Steady; it repeats deliberately for persuasion.
How The Conquest of Bread is regarded
The Conquest of Bread holds a literary regard score of 70 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.