The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

Published 1959 · 547 pages · 189,711 words · about 13 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction

How hard is The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters to read?

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters 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: 58 out of 100
19th century Western.
Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
Adventure prose.
Abstraction: 55 out of 100
Adventure, coming-of-age.
Information density: 60 out of 100
Gold Rush journey.
Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
First person.
Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
Journey, gold.
Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
Boy narrator.
Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
Journey ends.
Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
Picaresque.

How The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is regarded

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters holds a literary regard score of 60 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.

About the author

Robert Lewis Taylor