A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
Published 1973 · 216 pages · 54,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is A Green Equinox to read?
A Green Equinox scores 47 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 45 out of 100
- Australian literary vocabulary with period inflections.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Flowing sentences in Jones's characteristic style.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Questions of home, belonging, and Australian landscape.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Dense with landscape and psychological observation.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Interior focus requires readers to interpret.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The landscape, seasons, relationships carry symbolic weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Jones writes with evident care for her characters.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Life continues without dramatic closure.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Essentially chronological with interior focus.
How A Green Equinox is regarded
A Green Equinox holds a literary regard score of 52 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.