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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 Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite Molière Page, Curtis Hidden 1622 (1870) 1673 (1946) 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 18064
    (45)
    15.4 1.39 8.7 73.3 6.9
    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 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Fielding, Henry 1707 1754 2000 4000 8000 10000 12000 18000 348464
    (871)
    30.5 1.5 16.9 48.8 14.0
    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 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
    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 Handbook of Embroidery Higgin, L. 4000 5000 8000 14000 16000 22000 14622
    (36)
    14.0 1.57 10.7 59.9 8.4
    Details Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)
    22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8
    Details An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce, Ambrose 1842 1914 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 16000 3713
    (9)
    18.8 1.47 11.5 63.0 9.1
    Details The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen 1871 1900 3000 5000 8000 9000 12000 16000 45599
    (113)
    12.7 1.46 9.0 70.6 6.6
    Details Songs of Innocence and Experience Blake, William 1757 1827 4000 5000 8000 10000 12000 15000 5549
    (13)
    18.8 1.31 8.8 77.1 7.2
    Details The Old Man of the Mountain Strang, Herbert 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 20000 58447
    (146)
    15.1 1.47 10.3 67.3 7.6
    Details A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago Sedgwick, Anne Douglas 1873 1935 2000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 27814
    (69)
    22.9 1.47 12.8 59.5 10.7
    Details Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti Henry, Henry A. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 40370
    (100)
    27.5 1.59 17.7 44.1 13.9
    Details Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)
    17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    Details Irene Iddesleigh Ros, Amanda Mc 1860 1939 3000 5000 8000 9000 11000 15000 33703
    (84)
    30.3 1.56 17.4 44.2 14.6
    Details The Shunned House Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890 1937 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 18000 10663
    (26)
    30.4 1.6 17.9 40.3 15.2
    Details Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    Details Shepp's Photographs of the World Shepp, James W.Shepp, Daniel B. 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 26227
    (65)
    25.1 1.67 16.9 40.3 13.9
    Details The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827 1915 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 241259
    (603)
    17.1 1.53 12.3 60.2 9.1
    Details The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844 1900 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 18000 27312
    (68)
    22.6 1.6 14.9 48.3 12.1
    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 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 The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir 1857 1934 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 98023
    (245)
    23.6 1.44 13.3 61.2 10.6
    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 Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 8000 13000 17000 24000 73251
    (183)
    11.4 1.44 7.8 73.2 5.9
    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 On the Sublime Longinus, 1st cent. Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) (1913) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 28948
    (72)
    17.0 1.6 13.0 54.3 9.9
    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 Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 8000 12000 16000 22000 28603
    (71)
    17.3 1.38 9.0 72.8 7.4
    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 Voltaire Morley, John 1838 1923 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 93857
    (234)
    25.2 1.62 16.7 44.2 13.4
    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 The Art of Modern Lace Making 4000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 17344
    (43)
    16.0 1.55 11.2 59.5 8.9
    Details Daisy Miller James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 4000 8000 9000 11000 19000 21009
    (52)
    12.8 1.52 10.0 65.3 7.3
    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 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 Shakspere & Typography Blades, William 1824 1890 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 19000 6763
    (16)
    19.3 1.59 13.4 53.1 10.6
    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 The Cid Corneille, Pierre Mongan, Roscoe 1606 1684 4000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 18903
    (47)
    12.1 1.46 8.8 70.7 6.4
    Details Human Animals Hamel, Frank 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 97180
    (242)
    23.3 1.51 14.0 55.5 11.3
    Details L'avare. English Molière Wall, Charles Heron 1622 1673 2000 3000 8000 12000 15000 22000 22064
    (55)
    8.8 1.37 6.2 82.1 4.0
    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 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 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

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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.