The Kindergarten by Léon Frapié
Published 1904 · 305 pages · 67,172 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Kindergarten to read?
The Kindergarten scores 42 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: 40 out of 100
- French school terminology in translation.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Clear, observational prose.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Poverty, childhood, and care.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Dense with Parisian poor life.
- Narrative indirection: 40 out of 100
- Observer narrator perspective.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- The school as social microcosm.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Social critique through observation.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Social problems persist.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Episodic narrative structure.
How The Kindergarten is regarded
The Kindergarten holds a literary regard score of 56 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.