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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 Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No Sophocles Murray, Gilbert 495BC (1866) 406BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 23000 17732
    (44)
    9.6 1.35 6.9 82.5 4.1
    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 Art of War Sunzi Giles, Lionel (1875) (1958) 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 22000 52452
    (131)
    18.1 1.52 12.6 59.5 9.5
    Details Poetics. English Aristotle Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) 384BC (1850) 322BC (1910) 3000 5000 11000 12000 14000 18000 15099
    (37)
    23.4 1.59 16.0 48.9 12.2
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 93549
    (233)
    22.4 1.57 14.4 51.3 11.7
    Details A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James 1882 1941 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 84537
    (211)
    15.8 1.41 9.3 71.2 7.2
    Details Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud, Sigmund Eder, M. D. (Montague David) 1856 (1866) 1939 (1936) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53068
    (132)
    25.7 1.64 17.2 42.3 13.7
    Details De vita Caesarum Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius 75 160 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 228866
    (572)
    26.5 1.63 17.5 42.4 13.9
    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 Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married Armitage, R. B. 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 68583
    (171)
    27.3 1.68 18.3 37.4 14.8
    Details The Social Cancer Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 173896
    (434)
    17.9 1.52 12.1 60.3 9.3
    Details The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Montaigne, Michel de Cotton, Charles 1533 (1630) 1592 (1687) 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 524667
    (1311)
    38.4 1.52 20.3 39.6 17.3
    Details Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave Aveling, Eleanor Marx 1821 (1855) 1880 (1898) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 115415
    (288)
    16.6 1.45 10.4 66.9 8.1
    Details A Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)
    28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 62632
    (156)
    17.0 1.53 11.9 60.3 9.1
    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 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 The Call of the Wild London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 23000 31797
    (79)
    18.7 1.39 10.4 69.9 8.1
    Details Les Misérables Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 562958
    (1407)
    15.6 1.5 10.9 64.1 8.2
    Details Don Quixote Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Ormsby, John 1547 (1829) 1616 (1895) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 425471
    (1063)
    45.3 1.41 21.6 41.9 18.7
    Details Lysistrata Aristophanes 446BC 385BC 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 21000 14327
    (35)
    12.9 1.49 9.4 67.9 7.0
    Details Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 17000 74768
    (186)
    22.5 1.55 14.3 52.9 11.5
    Details The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 69129
    (172)
    40.3 1.43 19.6 44.9 17.0
    Details The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Allen, Emory Adams 1853 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 206643
    (516)
    18.2 1.56 13.0 56.2 9.9
    Details The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Boylan, R. Dillon 1749 1832 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 15000 42359
    (105)
    17.7 1.48 11.3 63.4 8.8
    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 The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 59603
    (149)
    18.2 1.49 11.1 62.4 9.1
    Details The Time Machine Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32111
    (80)
    16.8 1.5 10.8 62.6 8.7
    Details Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Boy Scouts of America 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 122326
    (305)
    15.9 1.49 10.6 64.8 8.2
    Details Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. Fairham, William 3000 6000 11000 13000 13000 20000 35294
    (88)
    14.4 1.49 9.9 66.1 7.6
    Details Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Welsh, Peter C. 3000 5000 9000 13000 14000 21000 11740
    (29)
    15.1 1.77 14.4 41.3 11.3
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)
    21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    Details El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)
    19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)
    18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    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 Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 72871
    (182)
    22.0 1.53 13.8 54.7 11.1
    Details On War — Volume 1 Clausewitz, Carl von Graham, J. J., Colonel 1780 1831 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 106755
    (266)
    34.3 1.59 20.0 37.3 16.6
    Details Don Juan Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788 1824 3000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 124309
    (310)
    37.0 1.39 17.6 52.1 15.2
    Details Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 21504
    (53)
    31.1 1.55 18.1 44.2 14.8
    Details Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas 1588 1679 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 19000 211956
    (529)
    34.2 1.51 19.0 44.3 15.6
    Details Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Edwards, Jonathan 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 70313
    (175)
    25.6 1.49 15.3 55.1 11.9
    Details Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 37389
    (93)
    15.6 1.47 10.0 66.8 7.8
    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 Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio 3000 4000 8000 12000 17000 22000 97942
    (244)
    20.5 1.5 13.2 58.7 10.2
    Details Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 183151
    (457)
    18.5 1.46 11.2 64.3 8.9
    Details English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- Long, William J. (William Joseph) 1867 1952 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 204834
    (512)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.5 12.2
    Details The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 20000 790029
    (1975)
    26.6 1.35 13.2 66.1 10.6
    Details Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)
    29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9
    Details Omens and Superstitions of Southern India Thurston, Edgar 1855 1935 3000 5000 10000 13000 16000 23000 93609
    (234)
    21.1 1.55 13.6 54.1 10.9
    Details The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 274389
    (685)
    30.2 1.57 17.9 43.2 14.7

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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.