With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Published 1884 · 1,135 pages · 290,947 words · about 20 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is With Fire and Sword to read?
With Fire and Sword 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: 65 out of 100
- Polish historical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Epic prose.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- War, nation, heroism.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- 17th century Poland.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- Third person epic.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Fire, sword, nation.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Romantic nationalism.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Epic resolution.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Epic structure.
How With Fire and Sword is regarded
With Fire and Sword holds a literary regard score of 69 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.