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 | Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People | Mallery, Garrick | 1831 | 1894 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
115635 (289) |
19.9 | 1.6 | 14.1 | 51.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Eve's Diary, Complete | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
6746 (16) |
19.9 | 1.37 | 10.4 | 70.6 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Lulu's Library, Volume I (of 3) | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
50272 (125) |
19.9 | 1.33 | 9.5 | 74.4 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
370669 (926) |
20.0 | 1.36 | 10.4 | 71.6 | 8.2 | |
| 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 | Concerning the Spiritual in Art | Kandinsky, Wassily | Sadleir, Michael | 1866 (1888) | 1944 (1957) | 3000 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
26025 (65) |
20.0 | 1.64 | 14.5 | 47.8 | 11.6 |
| 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 Land That Time Forgot | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
36905 (92) |
20.0 | 1.44 | 11.3 | 64.7 | 9.2 | |
| Details | A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles | Lee, Sidney, Sir | 1859 | 1926 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
132934 (332) |
20.0 | 1.69 | 15.5 | 43.2 | 12.2 | |
| 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 Short History of the World | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
111386 (278) |
20.1 | 1.68 | 15.2 | 44.4 | 12.1 | |
| 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 | Orthodoxy | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
63665 (159) |
20.1 | 1.53 | 13.0 | 57.2 | 10.3 | |
| Details | Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate | Nevinson, John L. | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 25000 |
9332 (23) |
20.1 | 1.67 | 14.7 | 45.4 | 11.9 | |||
| Details | The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of | Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte | Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) | 1873 (1873) | 1897 (1963) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
104435 (261) |
20.1 | 1.43 | 11.4 | 65.5 | 9.1 |
| Details | Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 | Vogel, Robert M. | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
12934 (32) |
20.1 | 1.73 | 15.8 | 40.1 | 12.7 | |||
| Details | Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 12000 |
1073 (2) |
20.2 | 1.37 | 10.7 | 70.8 | 8.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1772 | 1834 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
21413 (53) |
20.3 | 1.31 | 9.8 | 75.3 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine | Elliott, James, Sir | 1880 | 1959 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
36438 (91) |
20.3 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.7 | 11.9 | |
| Details | The Beast in the Jungle | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
18288 (45) |
20.3 | 1.39 | 11.6 | 68.4 | 8.8 | |
| 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 | Four Arthurian Romances | Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. | Comfort, William Wistar | (1874) | (1955) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
189648 (474) |
20.4 | 1.34 | 10.7 | 72.4 | 8.2 |
| Details | Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
335852 (839) |
20.4 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 53.1 | 10.9 | |||
| 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 | Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) | 1822 | 1885 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
276868 (692) |
20.5 | 1.55 | 13.9 | 54.7 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers | Winks, William Edward | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
99421 (248) |
20.5 | 1.55 | 13.5 | 54.9 | 10.7 | |||
| Details | A Watcher in The Woods | Sharp, Dallas Lore | 1870 | 1929 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30932 (77) |
20.5 | 1.42 | 10.9 | 65.8 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | Poems | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) | 1865 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
36280 (90) |
20.6 | 1.34 | 10.0 | 72.5 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
121886 (304) |
20.6 | 1.42 | 11.7 | 66.2 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English | Stanton, Henry | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
13663 (34) |
20.6 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.6 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 | Cole, E. W. (Edward William) | 1832 | 1918 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
141555 (353) |
20.6 | 1.38 | 10.6 | 68.8 | 8.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | Middlemarch | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
311801 (779) |
20.7 | 1.49 | 12.8 | 59.3 | 10.1 | |
| 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 Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and | Mc | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 18000 |
63686 (159) |
20.7 | 1.51 | 13.1 | 58.4 | 10.3 | |||
| Details | The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United | Wells-Barnett, Ida B. | 1862 | 1931 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
33314 (83) |
20.7 | 1.54 | 13.4 | 55.5 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor | Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) | 1821 | 1878 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
87404 (218) |
20.7 | 1.45 | 11.9 | 62.9 | 9.6 | |
| 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 Old Curiosity Shop | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
213290 (533) |
20.8 | 1.43 | 12.0 | 64.6 | 9.4 | |
| Details | The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo | Machen, Arthur | 1725 (1863) | 1798 (1947) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
1251067 (3127) |
20.8 | 1.46 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.7 |
| Details | The Chronicles of Clovis | Saki | 1870 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
52069 (130) |
20.8 | 1.57 | 13.7 | 52.5 | 11.1 | |
| Details | The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man | Patañjali | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 20000 |
30099 (75) |
20.8 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 54.3 | 10.9 | |||
| Details | Modern Essays | Beerbohm, Max, Sir | 1872 | 1956 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
83522 (208) |
20.8 | 1.53 | 13.1 | 56.3 | 10.6 | |
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.