The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
Published 2002 · 520 pages · 130,000 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · History, Literary Fiction
How hard is The Mulberry Empire to read?
The Mulberry Empire scores 56 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: 58 out of 100
- Afghan, Victorian.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Hensher's elaborate prose.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Empire, Afghanistan.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- First Afghan War.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Mulberry, empire.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Colonial critique.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Historical outcome.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Multiple viewpoints.
How The Mulberry Empire is regarded
The Mulberry Empire holds a literary regard score of 56 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.