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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 Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 202487
    (506)
    14.3 1.47 10.0 67.6 7.4
    Details Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 16000 119679
    (299)
    19.8 1.52 13.0 58.1 10.1
    Details Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Exp Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 231338
    (578)
    23.3 1.65 16.3 43.5 13.0
    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 Prufrock and Other Observations Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 3812
    (9)
    24.3 1.44 12.9 60.7 10.8
    Details Précis de l'art de la guerre. English Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de Mendell, George H. (George Henry) 1779 (1831) 1869 (1902) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 139359
    (348)
    21.4 1.63 15.5 46.9 12.0
    Details Psmith, Journalist Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 56439
    (141)
    11.2 1.46 8.2 71.9 6.0
    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 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 335852
    (839)
    20.4 1.57 13.6 53.1 10.9
    Details Pygmalion Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 33146
    (82)
    10.4 1.48 8.2 71.5 5.9
    Details Queen Victoria Browne, E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) 1871 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 33632
    (84)
    23.2 1.54 14.3 53.4 11.6
    Details Rainbow Valley Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 16000 79562
    (198)
    12.6 1.41 7.9 75.1 5.9
    Details Ramayana. English Valmiki Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) (1826) (1906) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 22000 394725
    (986)
    19.0 1.38 10.5 70.4 8.1
    Details Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims La Rochefoucauld, François duc de Willis Bund, J. W. (John William) 1613 (1843) 1680 (1928) 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 34123
    (85)
    16.4 1.53 11.9 61.2 8.8
    Details Return of Tarzan Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88607
    (221)
    18.0 1.44 10.8 66.3 8.5
    Details Riders of the Purple Sage Grey, Zane 1872 1939 3000 5000 9000 15000 24000 24000 102465
    (256)
    12.4 1.39 7.8 76.5 5.7
    Details Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 8000 13000 17000 24000 73251
    (183)
    11.4 1.44 7.8 73.2 5.9
    Details Rilla of Ingleside Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 101158
    (252)
    15.1 1.42 9.0 71.5 7.0
    Details Rob Roy — Complete Scott, Walter, Sir 1771 1832 3000 5000 9000 13000 18000 24000 190693
    (476)
    29.9 1.53 17.0 46.9 14.2
    Details Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 120387
    (300)
    49.5 1.38 22.5 39.8 20.0
    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 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 Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)
    22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8
    Details Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. I of II) Bucke, Charles 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 144564
    (361)
    24.0 1.58 15.7 48.5 12.5
    Details Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828) (1889) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 127694
    (319)
    14.6 1.42 9.1 71.6 6.9
    Details Sailing Alone Around the World Slocum, Joshua 1844 1910 2000 5000 8000 12000 13000 20000 69436
    (173)
    22.4 1.44 12.1 62.0 10.2
    Details Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802 1875 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 294773
    (736)
    22.0 1.56 14.4 52.6 11.4
    Details Second Treatise of Government Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56126
    (140)
    33.0 1.51 18.6 45.7 15.1
    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 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 Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad Fea, Allan 1860 1956 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 19000 33872
    (84)
    31.2 1.58 17.8 41.2 15.3
    Details Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    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 Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 117920
    (294)
    24.3 1.51 14.9 54.1 11.8
    Details Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 120454
    (301)
    22.9 1.52 14.4 55.1 11.3
    Details Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English Stanton, Henry 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 13663
    (34)
    20.6 1.66 15.5 45.6 12.0
    Details Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila Morgan, Thomas Hunt 1866 1945 4000 7000 13000 13000 14000 24000 27302
    (68)
    14.2 1.66 11.4 52.4 9.5
    Details Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)
    21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    Details Shakspere & Typography Blades, William 1824 1890 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 19000 6763
    (16)
    19.3 1.59 13.4 53.1 10.6
    Details She Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 3000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 129365
    (323)
    27.4 1.47 15.1 54.7 12.4
    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 Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Beard, Daniel Carter 1850 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 50042
    (125)
    17.8 1.39 10.1 71.4 7.7
    Details Shepp's Photographs of the World Shepp, James W.Shepp, Daniel B. 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 26227
    (65)
    25.1 1.67 16.9 40.3 13.9
    Details Short Stories Dostoievski, Fiodor 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 79953
    (199)
    15.4 1.48 10.3 66.3 7.8
    Details Short-Stories 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 73428
    (183)
    17.4 1.51 11.6 61.2 9.0
    Details Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 1877 1962 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 20000 39112
    (97)
    21.2 1.44 12.4 63.5 9.7
    Details Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People Mallery, Garrick 1831 1894 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 115635
    (289)
    19.9 1.6 14.1 51.4 11.0
    Details Silas Marner Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 70159
    (175)
    26.6 1.43 13.8 58.8 11.7
    Details Sketches New and Old Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 96722
    (241)
    21.2 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.3
    Details Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews United States. Work Projects Administration 2000 6000 9000 15000 20000 22000 126940
    (317)
    17.2 1.35 8.8 75.6 7.0

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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.