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 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
12261 (30) |
19.3 | 1.3 | 9.7 | 77.1 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete | Young, Filson | 1876 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
161166 (402) |
35.3 | 1.5 | 19.2 | 44.2 | 15.9 | |
| Details | The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known | Jacobs, Joseph | 1854 | 1916 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
46249 (115) |
15.9 | 1.63 | 13.1 | 52.9 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Miss Primrose A Novel | Gilson, Roy Rolfe | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
49888 (124) |
14.8 | 1.45 | 9.1 | 69.2 | 7.3 | |||
| Details | Nicholas Nickleby | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
317769 (794) |
19.4 | 1.49 | 12.3 | 61.1 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works | Kalidasa | Ryder, Arthur W. (Arthur William) | (1877) | (1938) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
61590 (153) |
14.2 | 1.49 | 9.7 | 66.8 | 7.5 |
| Details | Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English | Balzac, Honoré de | 1799 | 1850 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
10624 (26) |
17.3 | 1.44 | 10.4 | 67.3 | 8.2 | |
| Details | A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
29106 (72) |
14.6 | 1.39 | 8.6 | 74.1 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Following the Equator | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184337 (460) |
20.0 | 1.5 | 12.4 | 60.0 | 9.9 | |
| Details | De Profundis | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
17584 (43) |
23.7 | 1.41 | 13.1 | 63.2 | 10.3 | |
| Details | Theresa Raquin | Zola, Émile | Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred | 1840 (1853) | 1902 (1922) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
70860 (177) |
17.4 | 1.49 | 11.4 | 62.8 | 8.8 |
| Details | Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas | Custer, Elizabeth B. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
136367 (340) |
27.0 | 1.49 | 15.2 | 53.3 | 12.5 | |||
| Details | Warlord of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
56940 (142) |
26.0 | 1.45 | 13.9 | 57.5 | 11.7 | |
| Details | New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin | Various | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
130202 (325) |
23.1 | 1.58 | 15.0 | 49.8 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas | Becke, Louis | 1855 | 1913 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
66427 (166) |
21.6 | 1.39 | 11.4 | 67.0 | 9.3 | |
| Details | The War in the Air | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
96478 (241) |
16.1 | 1.51 | 10.9 | 62.4 | 8.5 | |
| Details | Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
114891 (287) |
27.9 | 1.46 | 15.0 | 55.4 | 12.5 | |
| 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 Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
187931 (469) |
24.6 | 1.47 | 14.0 | 57.4 | 11.4 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Peter Pan | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
47245 (118) |
14.8 | 1.36 | 8.3 | 76.5 | 6.3 | |
| 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 | 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 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
116398 (290) |
20.0 | 1.42 | 11.2 | 66.5 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
82835 (207) |
23.3 | 1.53 | 14.2 | 54.0 | 11.5 | |
| 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 | Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103706 (259) |
36.5 | 1.51 | 19.2 | 42.3 | 16.4 | |
| 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 | The Jungle Book | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 25000 |
50599 (126) |
15.9 | 1.33 | 8.1 | 78.1 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
67669 (169) |
17.9 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.3 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
457024 (1142) |
16.8 | 1.49 | 11.3 | 63.6 | 8.6 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Chopin, Kate | 1850 | 1904 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
63540 (158) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.8 | 67.9 | 7.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | The Canterville Ghost | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
11587 (28) |
26.1 | 1.49 | 14.9 | 54.5 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
68147 (170) |
17.8 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.2 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Omnilingual | Piper, H. Beam | 1904 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
16172 (40) |
14.5 | 1.52 | 10.4 | 63.4 | 8.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes | Henry VIII, King of England | 1491 | 1547 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
5585 (13) |
22.3 | 1.42 | 12.3 | 64.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 13000 | 13000 |
1399 (3) |
13.9 | 1.54 | 9.0 | 62.5 | 8.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | |
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.