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    (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%)
    Conventional Readability Formula
    Title Author Translator Born Died 90% 95% 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% Word Count (Pages) Words per Sentence Syllables per Word Fog Index Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid
    Details Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, S Kleiser, Grenville 1868 1953 6000 9000 12000 15000 17000 22000 81255
    (203)    		 230.2 1.83 101.1 -181.4 95.7
    Details Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth Descartes, René 1596 1650 3000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 23024
    (57)    		 81.4 1.54 38.0 -5.7 34.3
    Details The Critique of Practical Reason Kant, Immanuel Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill 1724 (1829) 1804 (1913) 3000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 62637
    (156)    		 50.4 1.64 27.2 16.6 23.4
    Details A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and P Dewey, Melvil 1851 1931 5000 8000 12000 15000 18000 23000 11325
    (28)    		 9.2 2.13 16.5 17.7 13.1
    Details Politics: A Treatise on Government Aristotle Ellis, William 384BC 322BC 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 101343
    (253)    		 55.7 1.54 27.9 20.4 24.2
    Details The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America United States 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 17000 1478
    (3)    		 39.9 1.71 24.3 21.5 20.2
    Details Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, Cleland, John 1709 1789 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 84355
    (210)    		 57.8 1.49 27.7 22.4 24.5
    Details The 2010 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 24000 1297237
    (3243)    		 13.8 2.0 16.9 23.4 13.4
    Details Theory of the Leisure Class Veblen, Thorstein 1857 1929 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 19000 105017
    (262)    		 33.7 1.76 21.7 24.1 18.3
    Details A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Casas, Bartolomé de las 1474 1566 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 30124
    (75)    		 53.7 1.51 26.5 24.5 23.2
    Details The Critique of Pure Reason Kant, Immanuel Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) 1724 (1830) 1804 (1902) 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 18000 206467
    (516)    		 35.8 1.72 22.9 24.9 18.7
    Details Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 6000 10000 11000 16000 18000 40617
    (101)    		 25.5 1.84 20.0 25.3 16.1
    Details A Modest Proposal Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 3000 4000 7000 9000 14000 18000 3406
    (8)    		 50.8 1.53 25.1 25.5 22.3
    Details The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) 1634 1693 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 61526
    (153)    		 56.6 1.45 26.7 27.1 23.5
    Details Utilitarianism Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 27456
    (68)    		 39.0 1.64 22.5 28.2 19.0
    Details In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Erasmus, Desiderius 1469 1536 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 44403
    (111)    		 48.2 1.52 24.3 29.4 21.1
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 21000 205539
    (513)    		 35.3 1.67 21.2 29.5 17.9
    Details The Communist Manifesto Engels, Friedrich 1820 1895 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 15000 11413
    (28)    		 24.1 1.81 19.1 29.5 15.1
    Details Strictures on Nullification Everett, Alexander Hill 3000 3000 6000 8000 9000 14000 30117
    (75)    		 36.3 1.66 22.0 29.6 18.2
    Details Utopia More, Thomas, Sir, Saint 1478 1535 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 14000 43401
    (108)    		 55.4 1.43 26.2 29.7 22.9
    Details Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx, Karl 1818 1883 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 39830
    (99)    		 30.8 1.72 20.5 29.7 16.8
    Details An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 48155
    (120)    		 31.1 1.71 20.6 30.5 16.7
    Details A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 408771
    (1021)    		 35.2 1.66 21.6 30.6 17.7
    Details Psychology and Social Practice Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 8000 12000 7549
    (18)    		 27.6 1.75 19.3 30.7 15.8
    Details Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 Lacroix, John Victor 1882 4000 8000 15000 20000 22000 25000 78588
    (196)    		 23.6 1.79 18.6 31.1 14.8
    Details Democracy in America — Volume 1 Tocqueville, Alexis de Reeve, Henry 1805 (1813) 1859 (1895) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 188399
    (470)    		 33.7 1.67 21.0 31.4 17.3
    Details The Federalist Papers Hamilton, Alexander 1757 1804 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 191873
    (479)    		 31.9 1.69 20.8 31.4 16.8
    Details The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography Butler, Samuel 1774 1839 3000 6000 10000 17000 19000 19000 1703
    (4)    		 18.1 1.85 16.9 31.6 13.4
    Details On Liberty Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 51737
    (129)    		 35.8 1.64 21.3 31.8 17.7
    Details The Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress Santayana, George 1863 1952 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 317310
    (793)    		 29.2 1.72 19.8 31.8 16.1
    Details The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Nuttall, P. Austin 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 758344
    (1895)    		 30.7 1.69 19.4 32.9 16.3
    Details The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides Crawley, Richard 455BC (1840) 395BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 204634
    (511)    		 39.8 1.57 22.0 33.4 18.5
    Details Roget's Thesaurus Roget, Peter Mark 1779 1869 10000 14000 19000 21000 23000 25000 180410
    (451)    		 9.1 1.94 13.6 33.6 10.8
    Details Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Zimmern, Helen 1844 (1846) 1900 (1934) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 61977
    (154)    		 32.8 1.65 19.9 33.7 16.7
    Details The Golden Asse Apuleius, Lucius 125 180 3000 6000 10000 15000 17000 23000 80574
    (201)    		 51.6 1.43 24.2 33.7 21.4
    Details Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Hooke, Robert 1635 1703 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 147089
    (367)    		 48.8 1.46 23.6 33.9 20.7
    Details Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o Milton, John 1608 1674 3000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 17989
    (44)    		 44.3 1.51 22.9 34.0 19.5
    Details Democracy in America — Volume 2 Tocqueville, Alexis de Reeve, Henry 1805 (1813) 1859 (1895) 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 140667
    (351)    		 33.1 1.64 20.1 34.3 16.7
    Details On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 154299
    (385)    		 30.7 1.67 19.2 34.8 16.0
    Details Line and Form (1900) Crane, Walter 1845 1915 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 44073
    (110)    		 32.9 1.64 19.6 34.8 16.6
    Details Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Harvey, Alexander Miller 1844 (1867) 1900 (1928) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 18000 36537
    (91)    		 32.2 1.65 19.7 34.9 16.4
    Details A Treatise of Human Nature Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 225521
    (563)    		 31.6 1.65 19.8 35.3 16.2
    Details A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia Bartholomew, J. G. 4000 8000 13000 17000 21000 24000 35280
    (88)    		 1.7 2.01 9.8 35.5 8.7
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 153985
    (384)    		 29.6 1.67 18.8 35.7 15.6
    Details The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Craven, Wesley Frank 1905 1981 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 20141
    (50)    		 29.4 1.67 19.4 36.0 15.5
    Details Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 134869
    (337)    		 23.7 1.73 17.5 36.1 14.1
    Details Essays in Experimental Logic Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 6000 7000 9000 15000 107047
    (267)    		 25.9 1.71 18.1 36.3 14.6
    Details Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 35903
    (89)    		 29.4 1.66 19.0 36.4 15.5
    Details The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788 1860 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 200546
    (501)    		 34.4 1.6 20.0 36.7 16.7
    Details Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 23520
    (58)    		 26.4 1.69 18.2 37.1 14.6

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