This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
Conventional Readability Formula |
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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 | Alexander the Great Makers of History | Abbott, Jacob | 1803 | 1879 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
52859 (132) |
23.5 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 48.0 | 12.4 | |
| Details | The Story of Mankind | Van Loon, Hendrik Willem | 1882 | 1944 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
128493 (321) |
21.3 | 1.56 | 14.0 | 53.3 | 11.1 | |
| Details | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Through Welsh Doorways | Marks, Jeannette Augustus | 1875 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 23000 |
41010 (102) |
15.1 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 7.1 | |
| Details | The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1 | Garis, Cleo | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
50450 (126) |
11.0 | 1.43 | 7.5 | 75.1 | 5.5 | |||
| Details | Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany | Fox, Edward Lyell | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
85448 (213) |
18.8 | 1.48 | 11.4 | 62.7 | 9.2 | |||
| 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 | Anthony Trent, Master Criminal | Martyn, Wyndham | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
80574 (201) |
12.7 | 1.48 | 9.3 | 69.0 | 6.8 | ||
| Details | The Gardener | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
13795 (34) |
14.2 | 1.28 | 7.1 | 83.9 | 5.1 | |
| Details | The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of | Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte | Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) | 1873 (1873) | 1897 (1963) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
104435 (261) |
20.1 | 1.43 | 11.4 | 65.5 | 9.1 |
| Details | The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & | Cody, Sherwin | 1868 | 1959 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
59114 (147) |
18.7 | 1.52 | 12.4 | 59.0 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
19419 (48) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.5 | 45.4 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Eyes Have It | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 12000 |
1120 (2) |
9.8 | 1.53 | 8.5 | 67.8 | 6.2 | |
| Details | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
| 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 | Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face | Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) | 1905 | 2002 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 13000 |
35128 (87) |
9.9 | 1.44 | 7.8 | 74.7 | 5.3 | |
| Details | Far from the Madding Crowd | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
135621 (339) |
16.3 | 1.47 | 10.3 | 66.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | What Is Man? and Other Essays | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
92556 (231) |
13.5 | 1.5 | 9.8 | 66.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries | Caesar, Julius | McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) | 100BC | 44BC | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
158969 (397) |
33.9 | 1.55 | 19.3 | 41.0 | 16.0 |
| Details | Sport Royal and other stories | Hope, Anthony | 1863 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27491 (68) |
10.4 | 1.48 | 8.3 | 70.8 | 6.0 | |
| Details | The Mill on the Floss | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
204609 (511) |
22.6 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 62.3 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | Ponce de Leon The Rise of the Argentine Republic | Pilling, William | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
209446 (523) |
22.0 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.8 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Beautiful and Damned | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
121625 (304) |
14.9 | 1.54 | 11.1 | 61.3 | 8.4 | |
| 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 | The Mystery of Jockey Hollow Arden Blake Mystery Series #2 | Garis, Cleo | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
45337 (113) |
11.1 | 1.41 | 7.5 | 75.9 | 5.4 | |||
| Details | The Battle of Life A Love Story | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 16000 |
29592 (73) |
14.7 | 1.45 | 9.4 | 69.5 | 7.2 | |
| Details | A Child's History of England | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
161921 (404) |
29.2 | 1.44 | 15.5 | 55.5 | 12.8 | |
| Details | The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put | Riley, Harvey | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 |
28496 (71) |
21.3 | 1.43 | 12.1 | 64.4 | 9.6 | |||
| Details | Life of Edward the Black Prince | Creighton, Louise | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
58151 (145) |
18.0 | 1.48 | 11.8 | 63.4 | 8.9 | |||
| Details | The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84282 (210) |
22.3 | 1.46 | 12.9 | 60.3 | 10.4 | ||||
| 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 | Love and Freindship [sic] | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32937 (82) |
26.6 | 1.53 | 16.0 | 50.0 | 12.9 | |
| Details | The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man | Patañjali | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 20000 |
30099 (75) |
20.8 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 54.3 | 10.9 | |||
| Details | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
74652 (186) |
18.2 | 1.47 | 11.3 | 64.2 | 8.8 | |
| Details | The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
110838 (277) |
18.2 | 1.48 | 11.5 | 63.5 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and prep | Rose, Joshua | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
63754 (159) |
17.0 | 1.53 | 11.8 | 60.1 | 9.1 | |||
| Details | Workhouse Characters and other sketches of the life of the poor. | Nevinson, Margaret Wynne | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
36252 (90) |
23.5 | 1.41 | 12.2 | 63.7 | 10.2 | |||
| Details | A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
29348 (73) |
12.3 | 1.45 | 8.4 | 71.7 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 24000 |
54516 (136) |
12.9 | 1.43 | 8.6 | 72.6 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
93327 (233) |
18.8 | 1.47 | 11.6 | 63.5 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
123834 (309) |
15.0 | 1.44 | 9.5 | 69.5 | 7.3 | ||||
| Details | The Arabian Nights | Lang, Andrew | 1844 | 1912 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
111534 (278) |
23.9 | 1.4 | 12.9 | 63.8 | 10.3 | |
| 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 | The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
184276 (460) |
22.1 | 1.62 | 15.5 | 47.0 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure | Stone, A. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56530 (141) |
15.7 | 1.45 | 9.7 | 68.7 | 7.6 | |||
| Details | Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature | James, William | 1842 | 1910 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
183540 (458) |
24.9 | 1.6 | 16.0 | 46.6 | 12.9 | |
| Details | Adventurings in the Psychical | Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) | 1874 | 1959 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
56849 (142) |
21.3 | 1.6 | 14.5 | 49.8 | 11.6 | |
| Details | Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 24000 |
46927 (117) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.3 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 | Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | 1886 | 1959 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
240707 (601) |
19.2 | 1.43 | 11.1 | 66.2 | 8.8 | |
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.