Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Published 1891 · 454 pages · 154,100 words · about 11 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Without Dogma to read?
Without Dogma scores 59 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: 62 out of 100
- Polish in translation.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Diary prose.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Will, meaning, modernity.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- 19th century Europe.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- First person diary.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Dogma, will.
- Ironic distance: 60 out of 100
- Self-aware narrator.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Failure, death.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Diary format.
How Without Dogma is regarded
Without Dogma 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.