The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard

Published 2021 · 104 pages · 26,000 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · History, Literary Fiction, Memoir & Autobiography

How hard is The War of the Poor to read?

The War of the Poor scores 57 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: 60 out of 100
Reformation vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
Clear historical.
Abstraction: 68 out of 100
Revolution, faith, justice.
Information density: 65 out of 100
Peasants War.
Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
Third person.
Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
Poor, revolt.
Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
Sympathetic history.
Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
Historical ending.
Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
Short novella.

How The War of the Poor is regarded

The War of the Poor holds a literary regard score of 57 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

Eric Vuillard