If anything is going to put modern readers off the novel, it will be its class assumptions.

Why do most modern readers tend to think in terms of ten to thirty men?

Anything more than a page is probably too long for many modern readers.

What they intended to do with this force is somewhat difficult for modern readers to determine.

His use of archaic language has been seen as difficult by some modern readers.

Yet she remains for the modern reader perhaps the most intriguing member of the entire family.

And in most wars that followed, a modern reader can add.

As a result, they are not difficult to comprehend for the modern reader.

And finally should we, as modern readers, want her to be tamed?

As expected, the treatise does not hold the attention of many modern readers.