The Story of Annie Oakley by Edmund Collier
Published 1956 · 49,775 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Biography, Children's Literature
How hard is The Story of Annie Oakley to read?
The Story of Annie Oakley scores 12 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 22 out of 100
- A 1956 juvenile biography uses plain, young-reader language to tell Annie Oakley's life. Its register sits close to The Diary of a Young Girl, with simple, direct wording.
- Sentence structure: 24 out of 100
- Books in the Signature series are written for young readers, so sentences stay short and declarative. The syntax is closer to Anne Frank's diary than to anything in the adult literary anchors.
- Abstraction: 18 out of 100
- The book follows concrete events: shooting game, marriage, performing in Buffalo Bill's show, a London Jubilee. It stays far more concrete than Atomic Habits, with little theory or philosophy.
- Information density: 24 out of 100
- A 181-page life story moves chronologically and spends its pages on a few events and stages of her career. Its density is light, comparable to a plot-driven popular read.
How The Story of Annie Oakley is regarded
The Story of Annie Oakley holds a literary regard score of 80 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.