The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Published 2017 · 145,475 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue to read?
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue scores 40 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 42 out of 100
- Period-flavoured but plainly modern.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short, comic sentences.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate Grand Tour detail.
- Narrative indirection: 42 out of 100
- A narrator whose self-regard hides a good deal from him.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Sustained comic distance from Monty.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Linear picaresque.
How The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is regarded
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue holds a literary regard score of 35 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.