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    Vocabulary Coverage
    (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 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 A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 -Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 1912 7000 13000 14000 19000 22000 25000 99841
    (249)
    2.9 1.57 5.4 70.8 4.1
    Details First Lessons in Geography Or, Introduction to Youth's Manual of Geography Monteith, James 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 17000 5269
    (13)
    3.1 1.69 7.6 60.8 5.5
    Details Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 Various 5000 9000 15000 18000 20000 24000 53847
    (134)
    4.6 1.89 10.4 42.6 8.5
    Details The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details New Latin Grammar Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) 1858 1921 7000 12000 20000 22000 23000 25000 63965
    (159)
    5.5 1.84 11.5 45.7 8.3
    Details Defenders of Democracy Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 12711
    (31)
    5.7 1.71 9.4 56.4 6.8
    Details Ossian in Germany Bibliography, General Survey, Ossian's Influence upon Klopstoc Tombo, Rudolf 1875 1914 3000 7000 11000 15000 16000 23000 48589
    (121)
    5.9 1.7 9.7 56.9 6.8
    Details Second Variety Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 11000 15191
    (37)
    6.3 1.41 5.1 81.4 3.5
    Details Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Scott, Charles A. 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 13160
    (32)
    6.6 1.39 5.1 82.1 3.4
    Details Beyond Lies the Wub Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 2682
    (6)
    6.6 1.4 5.5 81.6 3.5
    Details Hedda Gabler Ibsen, Henrik Gosse, Edmund 1828 (1849) 1906 (1928) 1000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 28907
    (72)
    6.6 1.42 5.2 80.1 3.7
    Details The Skull Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 14000 14000 14000 7747
    (19)
    7.0 1.39 5.4 81.9 3.6
    Details Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of Schlebecker, John T. 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 22455
    (56)
    7.1 1.71 9.7 54.7 7.4
    Details 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Grose, Francis 1731 1791 5000 8000 13000 15000 19000 24000 80819
    (202)
    7.1 1.53 6.6 70.3 5.2
    Details A Doll's House Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 15000 24007
    (60)
    7.2 1.34 5.0 85.8 3.1
    Details The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18000 10194
    (25)
    7.3 1.75 11.5 51.8 7.8
    Details The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book 7000 16000 20000 22000 24000 25000 42736
    (106)
    7.5 1.68 9.8 56.9 7.2
    Details An Ideal Husband Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 1000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 28974
    (72)
    7.5 1.47 6.3 75.2 4.6
    Details The Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)
    7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    Details The Alchemist Jonson, Ben 1573 1637 4000 8000 12000 16000 21000 24000 47958
    (119)
    7.6 1.47 7.0 74.7 4.7
    Details Mr. Spaceship Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 4000 6000 7000 11000 10529
    (26)
    7.7 1.44 6.3 77.2 4.4
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    Details The Variable Man Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 18000 24824
    (62)
    7.8 1.51 7.4 71.3 5.3
    Details A Doll's House : a play Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 15000 26051
    (65)
    7.9 1.37 5.2 82.9 3.6
    Details Piper in the Woods Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 9000 14000 7221
    (18)
    7.9 1.41 6.3 79.3 4.2
    Details Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 23000 25924
    (64)
    8.0 1.32 5.1 86.7 3.2
    Details The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, Unknown 2000 4000 6000 11000 12000 15000 33352
    (83)
    8.1 1.35 5.5 84.2 3.5
    Details Latin for Beginners D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) 1860 1940 7000 13000 20000 22000 23000 24000 91186
    (227)
    8.2 1.74 10.8 51.2 8.1
    Details The Crystal Crypt Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 12000 7313
    (18)
    8.3 1.43 6.0 77.7 4.5
    Details Hamlet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 22000 28983
    (72)
    8.3 1.43 6.8 77.6 4.5
    Details She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith, Oliver 1730 1774 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 22563
    (56)
    8.3 1.42 6.0 78.2 4.4
    Details Beyond the Door Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 8000 9000 2451
    (6)
    8.4 1.35 5.4 84.3 3.6
    Details Ghosts Ibsen, Henrik Archer, William 1828 (1856) 1906 (1924) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 23525
    (58)
    8.4 1.44 6.4 76.7 4.7
    Details Symbolic Logic Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 17000 46466
    (116)
    8.4 1.53 8.2 68.5 5.8
    Details The Game of Logic Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 13040
    (32)
    8.5 1.46 7.4 74.7 4.9
    Details Youth Asimov, Isaac 1920 1992 2000 3000 5000 6000 9000 14000 10013
    (25)
    8.6 1.43 7.1 77.0 4.6
    Details A Little Book of Filipino Riddles 4000 6000 10000 15000 18000 24000 15684
    (39)
    8.6 1.64 8.8 59.3 7.1
    Details Uncle Vanya Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860 1904 2000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 16391
    (40)
    8.8 1.44 7.1 76.2 4.8
    Details L'avare. English Molière Wall, Charles Heron 1622 1673 2000 3000 8000 12000 15000 22000 22064
    (55)
    8.8 1.37 6.2 82.1 4.0
    Details An Enemy of the People Ibsen, Henrik Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) 1828 (1864) 1906 (1945) 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 30158
    (75)
    8.8 1.45 6.7 75.2 5.0
    Details Clouds Aristophanes Hickie, William James 446BC 385BC 3000 7000 18000 18000 20000 22000 15272
    (38)
    8.9 1.42 7.0 78.1 4.6
    Details The Defenders Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 10000 14000 14000 8545
    (21)
    8.9 1.44 6.9 76.2 4.9
    Details Handwork in Wood Noyes, William 1862 1928 3000 5000 10000 13000 17000 21000 58844
    (147)
    9.0 1.48 7.3 72.5 5.4
    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 Secret Adversary Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 74269
    (185)
    9.2 1.46 7.6 73.8 5.3
    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 The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Behn, Aphra 1640 1689 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 144849
    (362)
    9.2 1.4 6.7 78.6 4.6
    Details 2 B R 0 2 B Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 2000 3000 7000 9000 10000 14000 2501
    (6)
    9.4 1.46 7.5 74.1 5.3
    Details The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affectin Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James) 1881 1945 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 22000 42645
    (106)
    9.4 1.6 9.7 62.1 6.9

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    The "Pages" shown in the parentheses at the "Word Count" are the results of the division of the "Word Count" by 400, where this website assumes a page of a book includes 400 words.