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 Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
114750 (286) |
30.5 | 1.44 | 16.2 | 53.8 | 13.3 | ||||
| Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
| Details | The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred | Morgan, William | 1774 | 1826 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
112150 (280) |
13.8 | 1.51 | 10.3 | 65.4 | 7.6 | |
| Details | Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi | Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von | Huggard, E. M. | 1646 | 1716 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 20000 |
184166 (460) |
24.4 | 1.56 | 15.6 | 50.1 | 12.3 |
| Details | Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden | (1828) | (1889) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
127694 (319) |
14.6 | 1.42 | 9.1 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series | Addison, Joseph | 1672 | 1719 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
929911 (2324) |
26.0 | 1.51 | 15.2 | 52.3 | 12.4 | |
| 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 River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan | Churchill, Winston | 1874 | 1965 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 13000 | 23000 |
124226 (310) |
19.9 | 1.61 | 14.3 | 50.3 | 11.2 | |
| Details | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
86554 (216) |
26.2 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.4 | 11.8 | |||
| 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 Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do | Popular Mechanics Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
231737 (579) |
15.1 | 1.44 | 9.7 | 69.8 | 7.3 | |||
| Details | Theory of the Leisure Class | Veblen, Thorstein | 1857 | 1929 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 13000 | 19000 |
105017 (262) |
33.7 | 1.76 | 21.7 | 24.1 | 18.3 | |
| Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
98568 (246) |
25.9 | 1.55 | 15.6 | 49.8 | 12.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
100810 (252) |
18.0 | 1.48 | 11.5 | 63.6 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | The Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph | Belloc, Hilaire | 1864 (1870) | 1938 (1953) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
25763 (64) |
23.0 | 1.28 | 10.7 | 75.3 | 8.5 |
| Details | Medea of Euripides | Euripides | Murray, Gilbert | 480BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
19773 (49) |
12.0 | 1.36 | 7.3 | 79.8 | 5.1 |
| Details | House of the Seven Gables | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
105173 (262) |
22.8 | 1.54 | 14.1 | 53.6 | 11.4 | |
| Details | Anabasis | Xenophon | Dakyns, Henry Graham | 431BC (1838) | 350BC (1911) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
93859 (234) |
26.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 55.8 | 12.0 |
| Details | Human Animals | Hamel, Frank | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
97180 (242) |
23.3 | 1.51 | 14.0 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making | Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) | 1850 | 1896 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
102413 (256) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 62.6 | 9.3 | |
| 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 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Ann Ward | 1764 | 1823 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
289394 (723) |
27.3 | 1.53 | 16.5 | 49.8 | 13.1 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
19419 (48) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.5 | 45.4 | 14.3 | |
| Details | Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying | Hooke, Robert | 1635 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
147089 (367) |
48.8 | 1.46 | 23.6 | 33.9 | 20.7 | |
| Details | A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while i | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 |
93796 (234) |
46.5 | 1.43 | 22.5 | 38.7 | 19.4 | |
| Details | On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Carlyle, Thomas | 1795 | 1881 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
87919 (219) |
22.6 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.1 | 10.8 | |
| Details | The Civil War in America Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861 | Russell, William Howard, Sir | 1820 | 1907 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
80322 (200) |
29.0 | 1.55 | 17.0 | 46.6 | 14.0 | |
| Details | Sport Royal and other stories | Hope, Anthony | 1863 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27491 (68) |
10.4 | 1.48 | 8.3 | 70.8 | 6.0 | |
| 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 | Ponce de Leon The Rise of the Argentine Republic | Pilling, William | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
209446 (523) |
22.0 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.8 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84282 (210) |
22.3 | 1.46 | 12.9 | 60.3 | 10.4 | ||||
| Details | A Young Girl's Diary | Anonymous | Paul, Eden | (1865) | (1944) | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 13000 | 15000 |
87209 (218) |
15.5 | 1.39 | 8.9 | 73.6 | 6.9 |
| 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 | |
| Details | The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record | Burnham, George P. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
66073 (165) |
17.7 | 1.54 | 11.9 | 58.9 | 9.5 | |||
| Details | Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 24000 |
46927 (117) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.3 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 | Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | 1886 | 1959 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
240707 (601) |
19.2 | 1.43 | 11.1 | 66.2 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33286 (83) |
24.8 | 1.57 | 15.5 | 48.5 | 12.7 | |
| 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 | Line and Form (1900) | Crane, Walter | 1845 | 1915 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
44073 (110) |
32.9 | 1.64 | 19.6 | 34.8 | 16.6 | |
| Details | Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete | Pepys, Samuel | Bright, Mynors | 1633 (1818) | 1703 (1883) | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
1253859 (3134) |
30.4 | 1.36 | 14.6 | 61.3 | 12.3 |
| Details | The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48890 (122) |
17.0 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 66.8 | 8.2 | |
| Details | The Last Man | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
173882 (434) |
25.1 | 1.53 | 15.1 | 52.3 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Crome Yellow | Huxley, Aldous | 1894 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
56364 (140) |
13.6 | 1.53 | 10.2 | 63.1 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Livy | Spillan, D. (Daniel) | (1854) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
231205 (578) |
32.4 | 1.58 | 19.4 | 40.1 | 15.7 | |
| Details | Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I | Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) | 1859 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 12000 | 13000 | 19000 |
18024 (45) |
13.6 | 1.42 | 9.1 | 72.7 | 6.5 | |
| Details | The Oxford Book of American Essays | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
161947 (404) |
24.8 | 1.55 | 15.1 | 50.8 | 12.3 | ||||
| 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 | |
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.