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 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy, Baroness Emmuska | 1865 | 1947 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
83462 (208) |
19.0 | 1.47 | 11.7 | 63.0 | 9.2 | |
| Details | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
3713 (9) |
18.8 | 1.47 | 11.5 | 63.0 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch | Petrarca, Francesco | 1304 | 1374 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
189869 (474) |
22.6 | 1.43 | 12.7 | 63.0 | 10.1 | |
| Details | The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
128461 (321) |
28.9 | 1.35 | 14.4 | 63.1 | 11.6 |
| Details | The Royal Picture Alphabet | Leighton, John | 1822 | 1912 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 21000 |
5109 (12) |
17.3 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 63.1 | 8.7 | |
| Details | The Odyssey of Homer | Homer | Cowper, William | 750BC (1731) | 650BC (1800) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
116500 (291) |
22.1 | 1.43 | 12.4 | 63.1 | 10.0 |
| Details | The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Digby, Kenelm | 1603 | 1665 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 | 23000 |
92490 (231) |
27.3 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.1 | 11.2 | |
| Details | Crome Yellow | Huxley, Aldous | 1894 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
56364 (140) |
13.6 | 1.53 | 10.2 | 63.1 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | Nonsense Books | Lear, Edward | 1812 | 1888 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 19000 |
28733 (71) |
18.8 | 1.47 | 11.3 | 63.2 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Wisdom of Father Brown | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
71271 (178) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 9.2 | |
| Details | Cautionary Tales for Children | Belloc, Hilaire | 1870 | 1953 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
2620 (6) |
16.4 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 8.5 | |
| Details | Mark Twain's Speeches | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
92337 (230) |
19.2 | 1.47 | 11.6 | 63.2 | 9.2 | |
| Details | The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account o | Keller, Helen | 1880 | 1968 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
133525 (333) |
19.7 | 1.46 | 11.5 | 63.2 | 9.3 | |
| 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 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25369 (63) |
21.3 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| Details | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25355 (63) |
21.4 | 1.44 | 12.2 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| Details | The Iliad | Homer | Pope, Alexander | 750BC (1688) | 650BC (1744) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
188352 (470) |
23.1 | 1.42 | 12.7 | 63.4 | 10.2 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Siddhartha | Hesse, Hermann | 1877 | 1962 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 | 20000 |
39112 (97) |
21.2 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 63.5 | 9.7 | |
| Details | The Iron Heel | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
87324 (218) |
14.4 | 1.52 | 10.6 | 63.5 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend | Aesop | Townsend, George Fyler | 620BC (1814) | 563BC (1900) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
40748 (101) |
22.2 | 1.43 | 12.6 | 63.5 | 9.9 |
| 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 | 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 | Notes from the Underground | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
43766 (109) |
18.1 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.5 | 8.9 | |
| 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 | Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
100810 (252) |
18.0 | 1.48 | 11.5 | 63.6 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 |
991 (2) |
17.1 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 63.7 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Mystère de la chambre jaune. English | Leroux, Gaston | 1868 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 9000 | 10000 | 11000 | 19000 |
73022 (182) |
15.8 | 1.5 | 11.3 | 63.7 | 8.3 | |
| 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 | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Richardson, Samuel | 1689 | 1761 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
221156 (552) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.2 | 63.7 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience | Matthews, Ike | 1857 | 1913 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
14490 (36) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.8 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Notre-Dame De Paris | Hugo, Victor | Hapgood, Isabel Florence | 1802 (1850) | 1885 (1928) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 25000 |
183996 (459) |
16.4 | 1.49 | 10.9 | 63.8 | 8.5 |
| 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 | Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers | Hughes, Talbot | 1869 | 1942 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
30554 (76) |
12.8 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 63.9 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Book of Household Management | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
488058 (1220) |
15.8 | 1.5 | 10.5 | 63.9 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Voyage au centre de la terre. English | Verne, Jules | Malleson, Frederick Amadeus | 1828 (1819) | 1905 (1897) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
73544 (183) |
14.7 | 1.51 | 10.6 | 63.9 | 8.0 |
| Details | How to Tell a Story and Other Essays | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 18000 |
7146 (17) |
21.7 | 1.43 | 12.0 | 64.0 | 9.7 | |
| 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 | Dombey and Son | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 24000 |
349083 (872) |
19.4 | 1.45 | 11.5 | 64.1 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Woman in White | Collins, Wilkie | 1824 | 1889 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 16000 |
241638 (604) |
17.8 | 1.47 | 11.3 | 64.1 | 8.7 | |
| Details | Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
31960 (79) |
25.1 | 1.38 | 12.6 | 64.2 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Gods of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 22000 |
82534 (206) |
20.2 | 1.44 | 11.5 | 64.2 | 9.3 | |
| Details | The Gods of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
82500 (206) |
20.2 | 1.44 | 11.5 | 64.2 | 9.3 | |
| Details | The Tale of Tom Kitten | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 3000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 13000 | 13000 |
754 (1) |
15.1 | 1.51 | 10.2 | 64.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
| 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 | |
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.