This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes | Terence | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | (1816) | (1878) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 | 23000 |
125987 (314) |
9.6 | 1.43 | 7.7 | 76.1 | 5.0 |
| Details | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) | Burke, Edmund | 1729 | 1797 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
161987 (404) |
29.8 | 1.6 | 18.6 | 41.0 | 15.0 | |
| 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 | Prufrock and Other Observations | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3812 (9) |
24.3 | 1.44 | 12.9 | 60.7 | 10.8 | |
| Details | The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection | Casteel, D. B. | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 | 20000 |
12517 (31) |
21.6 | 1.57 | 13.5 | 52.3 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts | Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
104617 (261) |
11.9 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 64.9 | 7.2 | |||
| Details | Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
132745 (331) |
17.9 | 1.72 | 15.0 | 42.8 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | Marx, Karl | 1818 | 1883 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39830 (99) |
30.8 | 1.72 | 20.5 | 29.7 | 16.8 | |
| 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 Mystery of the Pinckney Draught | Nott, Charles C. | 1827 | 1916 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 9000 | 10000 | 17000 |
59403 (148) |
24.7 | 1.63 | 17.1 | 43.9 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The Innocents Abroad | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
190987 (477) |
21.8 | 1.49 | 13.0 | 58.5 | 10.5 | |
| Details | The Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress | Santayana, George | 1863 | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
317310 (793) |
29.2 | 1.72 | 19.8 | 31.8 | 16.1 | |
| Details | Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 18000 |
23520 (58) |
26.4 | 1.69 | 18.2 | 37.1 | 14.6 |
| Details | From sketch-book and diary | Butler, Elizabeth | 1846 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
34038 (85) |
23.5 | 1.51 | 13.6 | 55.4 | 11.4 | |
| 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 Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told | Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) | 1861 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
104277 (260) |
20.9 | 1.61 | 14.4 | 49.3 | 11.6 | |
| Details | The Book of Tea | Okakura, Kakuzo | 1862 | 1913 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
17957 (44) |
19.4 | 1.61 | 13.7 | 51.2 | 10.9 | |
| Details | The Pickwick Papers | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
290649 (726) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.3 | 61.7 | 9.0 | |
| Details | South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition | Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir | 1874 | 1922 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
144681 (361) |
17.8 | 1.47 | 11.0 | 64.4 | 8.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Tales of the Jazz Age | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
85222 (213) |
13.4 | 1.49 | 9.3 | 67.4 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar | Leblanc, Maurice | 1864 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 | 18000 |
53672 (134) |
12.4 | 1.53 | 9.9 | 65.1 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Confessions of St. Augustine | Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo | Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) | 354 (1800) | 430 (1882) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
111847 (279) |
30.4 | 1.41 | 15.7 | 57.0 | 12.9 |
| 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 | The Riddle of the Sands | Childers, Erskine | 1870 | 1922 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
107279 (268) |
16.5 | 1.47 | 10.2 | 66.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 | Cooper, James Fenimore | 1789 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
148091 (370) |
24.8 | 1.51 | 14.8 | 54.0 | 11.9 | |
| Details | Our Mutual Friend | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 17000 |
319979 (799) |
15.6 | 1.46 | 10.0 | 67.8 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33806 (84) |
24.3 | 1.58 | 15.3 | 48.8 | 12.5 | |
| Details | The Book of Mormon | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1805 | 1844 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
275021 (687) |
35.8 | 1.39 | 17.5 | 53.1 | 14.7 | |
| Details | Twenty Years After | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
240798 (601) |
13.6 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 69.5 | 7.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Ho | Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert) | 1871 | 1930 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 14000 | 19000 | 19000 |
36773 (91) |
18.6 | 1.33 | 9.6 | 75.4 | 7.4 | |
| 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 | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
153985 (384) |
29.6 | 1.67 | 18.8 | 35.7 | 15.6 | |
| Details | Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
169054 (422) |
17.2 | 1.52 | 11.8 | 60.6 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Lord Jim | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
127361 (318) |
17.0 | 1.45 | 10.4 | 67.2 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | 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 | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
154299 (385) |
30.7 | 1.67 | 19.2 | 34.8 | 16.0 | |
| Details | Main Street | Lewis, Sinclair | 1885 | 1951 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
164004 (410) |
14.1 | 1.48 | 9.4 | 67.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanator | Aeschylus | Murray, Gilbert | 525BC (1866) | 456BC (1957) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
20586 (51) |
13.1 | 1.4 | 8.4 | 75.1 | 6.1 |
| Details | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) | 480 (1862) | 525 (1931) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
42189 (105) |
19.5 | 1.47 | 12.3 | 62.6 | 9.4 |
| Details | The Amateur Cracksman | Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William) | 1866 | 1921 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
51615 (129) |
13.7 | 1.41 | 8.4 | 73.7 | 6.4 | |
| Details | The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affectin | Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James) | 1881 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
42645 (106) |
9.4 | 1.6 | 9.7 | 62.1 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
| Details | The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under | Bunyan, John | 1628 | 1688 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
56792 (141) |
19.1 | 1.33 | 10.0 | 75.3 | 7.5 | |
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.