The Bridal March by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Published 1873 · 72 pages · 33,224 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Bridal March to read?
The Bridal March scores 48 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: 50 out of 100
- Norwegian in translation.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Bjørnson's simple prose.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Love, tradition.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Norwegian village.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- Direct narrative.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Bridal march, tradition.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Romantic sincerity.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Happy resolution.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Simple romance.
How The Bridal March is regarded
The Bridal March holds a literary regard score of 45 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.