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 | Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
142729 (356) |
20.7 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 61.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated | Dante Alighieri | Cary, Henry Francis | 1265 (1772) | 1321 (1844) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
108262 (270) |
24.5 | 1.34 | 12.1 | 68.4 | 9.8 |
| Details | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Douglass, Frederick | 1818 | 1895 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
40404 (101) |
20.3 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 60.7 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a | Bradford, William | 1590 | 1657 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 | 23000 |
169207 (423) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Browning, Robert | 1812 | 1889 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 16000 | 20000 |
2145 (5) |
23.3 | 1.38 | 11.3 | 66.5 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Age of Innocence | Wharton, Edith | 1862 | 1937 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
99922 (249) |
19.8 | 1.5 | 12.3 | 60.1 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Aeneid English | Virgil | Dryden, John | 70BC (1631) | 19BC (1700) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
106024 (265) |
24.5 | 1.34 | 11.8 | 68.2 | 9.8 |
| Details | Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World | Cook, James | 1728 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
220361 (550) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.3 | 62.8 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 19000 |
14288 (35) |
17.6 | 1.57 | 12.3 | 56.2 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates | Plato | Cary, Henry | 427BC (1804) | 347BC (1870) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 20000 |
51647 (129) |
21.7 | 1.45 | 13.1 | 62.5 | 9.9 |
| Details | On the Sublime | Longinus, 1st cent. | Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) | (1913) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
28948 (72) |
17.0 | 1.6 | 13.0 | 54.3 | 9.9 | |
| 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The fiddle and the bow, The paradise of fools, Visions | Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love) | 1850 | 1912 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
29397 (73) |
21.5 | 1.46 | 12.3 | 61.5 | 10.0 | |
| Details | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
13203 (33) |
15.7 | 1.65 | 13.1 | 51.3 | 10.0 | |||
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Pride and Prejudice | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
119679 (299) |
19.8 | 1.52 | 13.0 | 58.1 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 | 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 | 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 Ten Books on Architecture | Vitruvius Pollio | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
97942 (244) |
20.5 | 1.5 | 13.2 | 58.7 | 10.2 | |||
| Details | Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G | Boswell, James | 1740 | 1795 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
214740 (536) |
20.2 | 1.52 | 12.9 | 57.9 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
187600 (469) |
26.2 | 1.32 | 12.9 | 68.5 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | |||
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.