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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 Discoverers and Explorers Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard) 1855 1903 2000 4000 6000 7000 9000 17000 20101
    (50)
    19.6 1.48 12.3 61.4 9.6
    Details Email 101 Goodwin, John 3000 3000 5000 7000 11000 19000 19561
    (48)
    15.1 1.63 12.3 53.6 9.5
    Details The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete 3000 6000 8000 12000 15000 22000 35371
    (88)
    24.1 1.35 12.3 68.0 9.8
    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 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 Emma Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 155516
    (388)
    20.8 1.47 12.4 61.1 9.9
    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 Aesop's Fables; a new translation Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 22000 41387
    (103)
    25.3 1.33 12.4 68.4 10.0
    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 Ethica. English Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632 1677 3000 4000 6000 9000 13000 17000 87693
    (219)
    16.0 1.56 12.4 59.1 9.0
    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 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 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 The Blue Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 138225
    (345)
    24.9 1.35 12.4 67.7 10.0
    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 A Tramp Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 153271
    (383)
    21.7 1.47 12.5 60.1 10.3
    Details A Book of Myths Lang, Jeanie 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 24000 90896
    (227)
    24.5 1.37 12.5 65.7 10.2
    Details The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 58756
    (146)
    19.8 1.5 12.5 59.8 9.8
    Details From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 8000 11000 12000 20000 90543
    (226)
    15.8 1.59 12.5 56.4 9.3
    Details Poems Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 4000 7000 12000 15000 19000 22000 6546
    (16)
    21.2 1.49 12.5 59.2 10.3
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)
    18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    Details The Art of War Sunzi Giles, Lionel (1875) (1958) 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 22000 52452
    (131)
    18.1 1.52 12.6 59.5 9.5
    Details Moby Dick, or, the whale Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 211314
    (528)
    21.5 1.49 12.6 59.4 10.3
    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 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 My Reminiscences Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 22000 60224
    (150)
    20.0 1.51 12.6 58.7 10.1
    Details Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)
    17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    Details The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 175708
    (439)
    16.8 1.62 12.6 53.1 10.0
    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 Legends of King Arthur and His Knights Knowles, James, Sir 1831 1908 3000 5000 10000 12000 15000 21000 93384
    (233)
    26.0 1.32 12.6 68.7 10.1
    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 Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 6000 10000 13000 18000 25000 123549
    (308)
    20.1 1.5 12.7 59.9 9.9
    Details The Monk; a romance Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) 1775 1818 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 136838
    (342)
    17.3 1.55 12.7 58.1 9.5
    Details Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thomas, Aquinas, Saint 1225 1274 3000 4000 6000 11000 13000 20000 486564
    (1216)
    17.0 1.55 12.7 58.7 9.3
    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 Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)
    19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    Details The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 24000 169570
    (423)
    21.2 1.46 12.7 61.8 9.9
    Details Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 10000 13000 17000 22000 168617
    (421)
    26.0 1.32 12.7 69.0 10.1
    Details Middlemarch Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 311801
    (779)
    20.7 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.1
    Details The Personality of American Cities Hungerford, Edward 1875 1948 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 105425
    (263)
    21.1 1.51 12.8 57.8 10.4
    Details Nature Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 15310
    (38)
    19.0 1.52 12.8 58.8 9.8
    Details Sketches New and Old Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 96722
    (241)
    21.2 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.3
    Details Meno Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 22147
    (55)
    19.6 1.5 12.8 59.8 9.8
    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 Mertvye dushi. English Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Hogarth, D. J. 1809 1852 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 140991
    (352)
    20.0 1.52 12.8 58.0 10.1
    Details The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition Duncan, A. W. 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 21000 31665
    (79)
    14.3 1.66 12.8 51.5 9.6
    Details The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) Duncker, Max Abbott, Evelyn 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 22000 140000
    (350)
    16.9 1.57 12.8 56.8 9.5
    Details A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago Sedgwick, Anne Douglas 1873 1935 2000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 27814
    (69)
    22.9 1.47 12.8 59.5 10.7
    Details The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form Hibberd, Shirley 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 40114
    (100)
    17.5 1.59 12.8 54.9 10.0
    Details The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 23000 58153
    (145)
    21.3 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.3

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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.