This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Published 2023 · 226 pages · 56,500 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is This Other Eden to read?
This Other Eden scores 55 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
- Maine dialect.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear prose.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Race, community, displacement.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Maine island history.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Eden, island.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Sympathetic engagement.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Historical ending.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How This Other Eden is regarded
This Other Eden holds a literary regard score of 57 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.