The Wild Orchid by Sigrid Undset
Published 1929 · 360 pages · 108,500 words · about 12 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Wild Orchid to read?
The Wild Orchid scores 54 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: 55 out of 100
- Norwegian in translation.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Hamsun lyrical.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Love, nature, youth.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Norwegian setting.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- First person.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Orchid, nature.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Romantic engagement.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Youth ends.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How The Wild Orchid is regarded
The Wild Orchid holds a literary regard score of 63 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.