This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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| 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 | The Anti-Slavery Alphabet | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
706 (1) |
18.6 | 1.35 | 9.2 | 74.1 | 7.5 | |||
| Details | The Antichrist | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) | 1844 (1880) | 1900 (1956) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
32360 (80) |
32.0 | 1.59 | 18.7 | 39.5 | 15.7 |
| Details | The Hindu-Arabic Numerals | Karpinski, Louis Charles | 1878 | 1956 | 3000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
45182 (112) |
11.6 | 1.69 | 11.9 | 51.6 | 8.9 | |
| Details | Wuthering Heights | Brontë, Emily | 1818 | 1848 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
114539 (286) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 65.8 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Steam, Its Generation and Use | Babcock & Wilcox Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 20000 |
120558 (301) |
9.8 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 56.0 | 7.9 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time | Litchfield, Frederick | 1850 | 1930 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 25000 |
73893 (184) |
20.4 | 1.66 | 15.3 | 45.4 | 12.0 | |
| Details | A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story | Harrison, Carter H. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
66474 (166) |
18.5 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.2 | 9.0 | |||
| Details | The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With | Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) | 1843 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
200768 (501) |
22.5 | 1.58 | 14.8 | 50.5 | 11.8 | |
| Details | Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. | Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) | 1848 | 1929 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
150454 (376) |
32.0 | 1.5 | 17.5 | 47.8 | 14.5 | |
| Details | Poor Folk in Spain | Gordon, Cora | 1879 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
79151 (197) |
17.0 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 63.4 | 8.6 | |
| Details | The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic | Newton, Isaac, Sir | 1642 | 1727 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 17000 | 18000 |
69813 (174) |
15.0 | 1.42 | 10.0 | 71.2 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 | Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) | 1873 | 1915 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
201803 (504) |
19.5 | 1.56 | 13.2 | 54.7 | 10.5 | |
| Details | The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy | James, William | 1842 | 1910 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
99183 (247) |
24.2 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 47.2 | 12.7 | |
| Details | Nationalism | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
26616 (66) |
24.0 | 1.56 | 15.2 | 50.2 | 12.2 | |
| Details | On the Trail of The Immigrant | Steiner, Edward A. | 1866 | 1856 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
87463 (218) |
28.2 | 1.54 | 16.4 | 47.9 | 13.6 | |
| Details | The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat | Celnart, Elisabeth | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
45211 (113) |
26.3 | 1.56 | 16.2 | 48.0 | 13.1 | |||
| Details | The Spell of Belgium | Anderson, Isabel | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
89821 (224) |
21.1 | 1.53 | 13.4 | 56.3 | 10.6 | |||
| Details | The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 21000 |
91873 (229) |
27.8 | 1.66 | 18.4 | 38.2 | 14.9 | ||||
| Details | The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec | Aristotle | 384BC | 322BC | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
107312 (268) |
26.1 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.5 | 11.7 | |
| Details | The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
45835 (114) |
19.7 | 1.67 | 14.9 | 45.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot | Craig, Austin | 1872 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
62400 (156) |
29.6 | 1.64 | 18.6 | 38.3 | 15.3 | ||
| Details | The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 | Wordsworth, William | 1770 | 1850 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
118027 (295) |
29.5 | 1.48 | 15.9 | 52.0 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
215612 (539) |
48.7 | 1.41 | 23.1 | 37.8 | 20.1 |
| Details | Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf For the Use of Teachers | Newell, Jane H. (Jane Hancox) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 | 24000 |
26005 (65) |
15.1 | 1.49 | 10.4 | 65.2 | 7.9 | |||
| 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 | The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study | Martin, Everett Dean | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70365 (175) |
18.9 | 1.69 | 14.8 | 44.7 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Autobiography of a Yogi | Yogananda, Paramahansa | 1893 | 1952 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
153564 (383) |
15.3 | 1.66 | 12.6 | 50.5 | 10.0 | |
| Details | Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) | 1873 | 1936 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
149754 (374) |
21.1 | 1.64 | 14.9 | 46.6 | 12.0 | |
| Details | Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
64184 (160) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.8 | 54.0 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The First Men in the Moon | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
67768 (169) |
15.6 | 1.49 | 10.2 | 65.2 | 8.0 | |
| 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 | The Invention of Lithography | Senefelder, Alois | Muller, J. W. | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
87110 (217) |
24.2 | 1.54 | 14.5 | 52.3 | 12.0 | ||
| Details | The Secret Agent a Simple Tale | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
88831 (222) |
14.6 | 1.54 | 11.0 | 61.4 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) | Burke, Edmund | 1729 | 1797 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
161987 (404) |
29.8 | 1.6 | 18.6 | 41.0 | 15.0 | |
| 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 Cask of Amontillado | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 6000 | 11000 | 17000 | 19000 | 19000 |
2302 (5) |
10.0 | 1.51 | 8.4 | 68.9 | 6.1 | |
| 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 | Amerigo Vespucci | Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) | 1849 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
55391 (138) |
29.6 | 1.56 | 17.8 | 45.1 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
137832 (344) |
21.9 | 1.49 | 13.5 | 58.2 | 10.6 |
| Details | A Short History of the World | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
111386 (278) |
20.1 | 1.68 | 15.2 | 44.4 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
92171 (230) |
28.4 | 1.6 | 17.7 | 43.0 | 14.3 | |
| Details | Political Ideals | Russell, Bertrand | 1872 | 1970 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 |
22188 (55) |
25.4 | 1.64 | 16.9 | 42.1 | 13.7 | |
| Details | Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts | Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
104617 (261) |
11.9 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 64.9 | 7.2 | |||
| Details | Music Notation and Terminology | Gehrkens, Karl Wilson | 1882 | 1975 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
40795 (101) |
13.0 | 1.66 | 11.8 | 53.5 | 9.0 | |
| Details | The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe | Cole, Fay-Cooper | 1881 | 1961 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
96647 (241) |
18.5 | 1.52 | 12.1 | 59.4 | 9.6 | |
| Details | The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa | New York Central Railroad Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
48248 (120) |
14.7 | 1.63 | 12.4 | 53.8 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
132745 (331) |
17.9 | 1.72 | 15.0 | 42.8 | 11.7 | |||
| 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 | |
Notes:
Numbers in the parentheses of the born/died information denotes the translators' born/died year.
Some of the born/died information of the authors and the translators of the wource data, catalog.rdf provided by the Project Gutenberg, have interrogation marks, which were stripped off in the table of this website for ease of processing the data.
The authors and the translators displayed in the table are only one of multiple data stated in the catalog.rdf, if the work is composed by more than one author or translator, for ease of processing the data in this website.
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.