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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 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 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    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 Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Mackey, Albert Gallatin 1807 1881 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 70062
    (175)
    26.1 1.65 17.7 40.8 14.1
    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 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Spenser, Edmund 1552 1599 4000 7000 12000 15000 20000 24000 70160
    (175)
    17.3 1.43 10.4 68.1 8.1
    Details Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 24000 70188
    (175)
    20.5 1.48 12.3 61.1 9.8
    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 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 The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 70421
    (176)
    12.3 1.41 7.9 75.2 5.8
    Details Japanese Fairy Tales Ozaki, Yei Theodora 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 70489
    (176)
    20.6 1.36 10.9 70.7 8.5
    Details The American Horsewoman Karr, Elizabeth 2000 4000 7000 11000 12000 20000 70753
    (176)
    27.7 1.48 15.1 54.0 12.6
    Details How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so Williams, Archibald 1871 1934 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 70756
    (176)
    16.5 1.56 11.6 58.0 9.3
    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 A Text-Book of the History of Painting Van Dyke, John Charles 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 23000 70887
    (177)
    14.4 1.71 12.8 47.9 10.2
    Details The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Garnett, Constance 1860 (1861) 1904 (1946) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 71033
    (177)
    17.1 1.45 10.7 66.6 8.2
    Details The King in Yellow Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 71137
    (177)
    15.5 1.46 9.6 68.0 7.6
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)
    21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4
    Details An Introduction to the History of Science Libby, Walter 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 71214
    (178)
    18.6 1.72 15.3 42.9 11.9
    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 Meditations Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome 121 180 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 71538
    (178)
    21.0 1.47 13.0 60.9 10.0
    Details From Gretna Green to Land's End A Literary Journey in England. Bates, Katharine Lee 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 21000 71781
    (179)
    28.9 1.52 15.8 49.2 13.6
    Details White Fang London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 16000 71789
    (179)
    15.2 1.41 9.4 72.1 7.0
    Details Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) Engel, Carl 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 71969
    (179)
    19.4 1.67 15.0 45.6 11.7
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 71992
    (179)
    33.4 1.51 18.4 45.1 15.3
    Details The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners Ruskin, John 1819 1900 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 72573
    (181)
    29.6 1.47 16.0 52.7 13.3
    Details Who Goes There! Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 19000 72754
    (181)
    12.0 1.47 8.7 70.2 6.4
    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 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 Carolina Lee Bell, Lilian 1867 1929 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 73197
    (182)
    14.4 1.46 9.6 68.7 7.3
    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 An English Grammar Sewell, James Witt 1865 1955 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 73343
    (183)
    9.9 1.56 9.7 64.8 6.7
    Details Short-Stories 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 73428
    (183)
    17.4 1.51 11.6 61.2 9.0
    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 French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie, de France, 12th cent. Mason, Eugene 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 73605
    (184)
    19.2 1.33 10.0 74.8 7.6
    Details Something New Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 73645
    (184)
    12.8 1.47 9.1 69.9 6.7
    Details On the Nature of Things Lucretius Carus, Titus Leonard, William Ellery 94BC (1876) 49BC (1944) 4000 7000 10000 13000 15000 23000 73647
    (184)
    41.8 1.39 19.5 47.2 17.1
    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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 73971
    (184)
    27.2 1.54 16.1 49.0 13.2
    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 The Rubicon Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867 1940 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74278
    (185)
    13.8 1.45 9.1 70.2 6.9
    Details The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 1873 1939 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74336
    (185)
    19.0 1.45 11.3 65.2 8.9
    Details Essays — First Series Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 74343
    (185)
    20.7 1.49 13.0 60.1 10.0
    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 Moon and Sixpence Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74760
    (186)
    14.4 1.45 9.3 69.8 7.1
    Details Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 17000 74768
    (186)
    22.5 1.55 14.3 52.9 11.5
    Details The Lost World Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 75381
    (188)
    17.0 1.47 10.9 65.2 8.4
    Details Anne of the Island Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 75570
    (188)
    12.7 1.43 8.3 73.0 6.2
    Details The Practice and Science of Drawing Speed, Harold 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 75941
    (189)
    26.6 1.55 16.1 48.9 13.1
    Details A Damsel in Distress Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 76064
    (190)
    11.6 1.46 8.3 71.8 6.1

    Notes:

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    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.
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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.