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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 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 Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 91306
    (228)    		 21.0 1.53 13.6 55.9 10.7
    Details The Wendigo Blackwood, Algernon 1869 1951 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 18159
    (45)    		 21.0 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.2
    Details The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 21000 210326
    (525)    		 21.0 1.57 13.8 52.6 11.1
    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 Yellow Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 111039
    (277)    		 21.0 1.33 10.6 73.2 8.3
    Details Omens and Superstitions of Southern India Thurston, Edgar 1855 1935 3000 5000 10000 13000 16000 23000 93609
    (234)    		 21.1 1.55 13.6 54.1 10.9
    Details Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 76450
    (191)    		 21.1 1.5 13.2 58.4 10.4
    Details The Spell of Belgium Anderson, Isabel 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 21000 89821
    (224)    		 21.1 1.53 13.4 56.3 10.6
    Details Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) 1873 1936 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 22000 149754
    (374)    		 21.1 1.64 14.9 46.6 12.0
    Details Heretics Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 64184
    (160)    		 21.1 1.55 13.8 54.0 11.0
    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 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)    		 21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4
    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 Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)    		 21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    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 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 Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 81525
    (203)    		 21.2 1.34 10.3 71.7 8.5
    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 Anarchism and Other Essays Goldman, Emma 1869 1940 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 67167
    (167)    		 21.2 1.64 15.1 46.2 12.1
    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 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 True Bear Stories Miller, Joaquin 1837 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 42215
    (105)    		 21.2 1.4 11.4 66.9 9.2
    Details The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25369
    (63)    		 21.3 1.44 12.1 63.3 9.7
    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
    Details The Story of Mankind Van Loon, Hendrik Willem 1882 1944 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 128493
    (321)    		 21.3 1.56 14.0 53.3 11.1
    Details The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put Riley, Harvey 2000 4000 6000 8000 12000 19000 28496
    (71)    		 21.3 1.43 12.1 64.4 9.6
    Details Adventurings in the Psychical Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) 1874 1959 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 56849
    (142)    		 21.3 1.6 14.5 49.8 11.6
    Details All Things Considered Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 59337
    (148)    		 21.3 1.54 13.6 54.7 10.9
    Details The Golden Goose Book Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 1000 3000 6000 9000 14000 14000 5262
    (13)    		 21.4 1.29 10.3 76.2 7.9
    Details The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25355
    (63)    		 21.4 1.44 12.2 63.3 9.7
    Details Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) 1723 (1771) 1789 (1797) 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 39094
    (97)    		 21.4 1.64 15.8 46.2 12.1
    Details Précis de l'art de la guerre. English Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de Mendell, George H. (George Henry) 1779 (1831) 1869 (1902) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 139359
    (348)    		 21.4 1.63 15.5 46.9 12.0
    Details Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais, François Urquhart, Thomas, Sir 1483 (1611) 1553 (1660) 4000 7000 12000 16000 20000 24000 317921
    (794)    		 21.5 1.49 13.0 58.9 10.4
    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 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 Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)    		 21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    Details The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Ames, Azel 1845 1908 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 90669
    (226)    		 21.5 1.56 13.7 53.4 11.1
    Details On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Beard, Lina 1857 1920 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 57386
    (143)    		 21.5 1.42 11.7 65.1 9.5
    Details Little Men Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 7000 8000 10000 17000 104244
    (260)    		 21.5 1.37 11.1 69.0 9.0
    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 Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska Gillis, Charles J. 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 10605
    (26)    		 21.6 1.5 13.0 57.8 10.6
    Details Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas Becke, Louis 1855 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 66427
    (166)    		 21.6 1.39 11.4 67.0 9.3
    Details How to Tell a Story and Other Essays Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 18000 7146
    (17)    		 21.7 1.43 12.0 64.0 9.7
    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 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 Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 162979
    (407)    		 21.7 1.68 15.6 42.9 12.7
    Details Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Bulfinch, Thomas 1796 1867 3000 6000 9000 13000 17000 24000 145570
    (363)    		 21.7 1.48 13.2 59.5 10.4
    Details Philippine Folk Tales 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 48249
    (120)    		 21.8 1.37 11.5 68.7 9.1
    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

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    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.
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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.