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 | 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 Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com | Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
303152 (757) |
22.2 | 1.7 | 16.6 | 40.5 | 13.1 | |||
| 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 | Walking | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
12032 (30) |
24.9 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 56.1 | 11.6 | |
| 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 | The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General | Nuttall, P. Austin | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
758344 (1895) |
30.7 | 1.69 | 19.4 | 32.9 | 16.3 | |||
| Details | The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter | Aesop | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
27122 (67) |
15.7 | 1.33 | 8.5 | 78.2 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Hunting of the Snark | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 15000 | 18000 |
4969 (12) |
22.4 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Rob Roy — Complete | Scott, Walter, Sir | 1771 | 1832 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 18000 | 24000 |
190693 (476) |
29.9 | 1.53 | 17.0 | 46.9 | 14.2 | |
| 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 | Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss, Johann David | 1743 | 1818 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
126097 (315) |
24.6 | 1.47 | 14.0 | 57.9 | 11.3 | |
| 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 | Kim | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 16000 | 22000 |
103135 (257) |
12.6 | 1.42 | 7.8 | 73.9 | 6.1 | |
| 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 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | Unknown | Ingram, J. H. (James Henry) | (1774) | (1850) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
93358 (233) |
16.3 | 1.46 | 10.7 | 67.2 | 7.9 |
| Details | The Wind in the Willows | Grahame, Kenneth | 1859 | 1932 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
57985 (144) |
18.1 | 1.41 | 10.2 | 69.4 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | Captain Blood | Sabatini, Rafael | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
112331 (280) |
14.5 | 1.48 | 10.2 | 66.7 | 7.6 | |
| 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 | The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 16000 | 18000 | 23000 |
9268 (23) |
12.3 | 1.68 | 11.9 | 52.0 | 9.1 | |||
| 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 | The Robbers | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
49365 (123) |
9.5 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 76.3 | 5.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | She | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
129365 (323) |
27.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 54.7 | 12.4 | |
| 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 | Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd | Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) | (1823) | (1900) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 |
11680 (29) |
12.8 | 1.43 | 8.7 | 73.0 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Gift of the Magi | Henry, O. | 1862 | 1910 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 14000 |
2038 (5) |
12.6 | 1.42 | 8.1 | 74.2 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas | Moore, Clement Clarke | 1779 | 1863 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
1086 (2) |
16.0 | 1.43 | 9.5 | 69.6 | 7.5 | |
| 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 Chemistry of Food and Nutrition | Duncan, A. W. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
31665 (79) |
14.3 | 1.66 | 12.8 | 51.5 | 9.6 | |||
| Details | Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers | Hughes, Talbot | 1869 | 1942 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
30554 (76) |
12.8 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 63.9 | 7.5 | |
| 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 | 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 | |||
| Details | The Essays of Francis Bacon | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
52994 (132) |
29.0 | 1.48 | 16.2 | 51.9 | 13.2 | |
| Details | Life Is a Dream | Calderón de la Barca, Pedro | FitzGerald, Edward | 1600 (1809) | 1681 (1883) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 19000 |
17220 (43) |
16.5 | 1.38 | 9.4 | 73.3 | 7.1 |
| Details | Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side | Pickthall, Marmaduke William | (1875) | (1936) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
491525 (1228) |
16.4 | 1.38 | 9.5 | 73.6 | 7.1 | |
| Details | The Island of Doctor Moreau | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
43537 (108) |
14.7 | 1.48 | 9.7 | 66.5 | 7.6 | |
| Details | Tarzan of the Apes | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
84994 (212) |
19.6 | 1.45 | 11.4 | 64.4 | 9.1 | |
| 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 | How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] | Lehmann, Lilli | Aldrich, Richard | 1848 (1863) | 1929 (1937) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
31812 (79) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.2 | 50.7 | 12.5 |
| Details | The Coming Race | Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron | 1803 | 1873 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
52320 (130) |
29.3 | 1.56 | 17.2 | 45.2 | 14.2 | |
| Details | Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenome | Ellis, Havelock | 1859 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
133904 (334) |
23.8 | 1.71 | 17.1 | 38.2 | 13.8 | |
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.