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.