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 American Frugal Housewife | Child, Lydia Maria | 1802 | 1880 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
44452 (111) |
18.4 | 1.42 | 10.5 | 68.1 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Pillar of Light | Tracy, Louis | 1863 | 1928 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
79534 (198) |
13.2 | 1.47 | 9.1 | 69.4 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so | Williams, Archibald | 1871 | 1934 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70756 (176) |
16.5 | 1.56 | 11.6 | 58.0 | 9.3 | |
| 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 | A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles | Lee, Sidney, Sir | 1859 | 1926 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
132934 (332) |
20.0 | 1.69 | 15.5 | 43.2 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Triplanetary | Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) | 1890 | 1965 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56328 (140) |
17.4 | 1.56 | 12.1 | 57.2 | 9.6 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 American Horsewoman | Karr, Elizabeth | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70753 (176) |
27.7 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.0 | 12.6 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
146705 (366) |
15.3 | 1.43 | 9.6 | 70.6 | 7.2 | ||||
| Details | From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
90543 (226) |
15.8 | 1.59 | 12.5 | 56.4 | 9.3 | |
| 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 | 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 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man | Patañjali | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 20000 |
30099 (75) |
20.8 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 54.3 | 10.9 | |||
| Details | The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
1235 (3) |
18.4 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 65.0 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Villette | Brontë, Charlotte | 1816 | 1855 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
189437 (473) |
18.2 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 61.8 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure | Stone, A. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56530 (141) |
15.7 | 1.45 | 9.7 | 68.7 | 7.6 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Miss Primrose A Novel | Gilson, Roy Rolfe | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
49888 (124) |
14.8 | 1.45 | 9.1 | 69.2 | 7.3 | |||
| Details | Architecture Gothic and Renaissance | Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) | 1830 | 1903 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
54623 (136) |
17.7 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.1 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles | 1814 | 1889 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
273706 (684) |
23.0 | 1.57 | 15.0 | 50.7 | 11.9 | |
| Details | Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor | Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) | 1821 | 1878 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
87404 (218) |
20.7 | 1.45 | 11.9 | 62.9 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture | George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) | 1870 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
99523 (248) |
12.9 | 1.65 | 12.0 | 54.1 | 8.9 | ||
| Details | The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution | Azuela, Mariano | Munguía, E. (Enrique) | 1873 (1903) | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
37140 (92) |
12.9 | 1.48 | 9.4 | 68.2 | 7.0 |
| Details | The Fall of the House of Usher | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 20000 |
6977 (17) |
29.1 | 1.62 | 17.8 | 40.3 | 14.9 | |
| Details | Demonology and Devil-lore | Conway, Moncure Daniel | 1832 | 1907 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
259586 (648) |
23.5 | 1.56 | 14.8 | 51.0 | 12.0 | |
| Details | The Best American Humorous Short Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
101352 (253) |
17.6 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 62.4 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | Tales of Folk and Fairies | Pyle, Katharine | 1863 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
54127 (135) |
17.5 | 1.29 | 8.6 | 79.7 | 6.5 | |
| Details | How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five H | Benedict, Ralph Paine | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 12000 | 21000 |
59865 (149) |
19.9 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 54.1 | 10.7 | |||
| Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
93549 (233) |
22.4 | 1.57 | 14.4 | 51.3 | 11.7 | |
| Details | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
205539 (513) |
35.3 | 1.67 | 21.2 | 29.5 | 17.9 | |
| Details | The Social Cancer | Rizal, José | Derbyshire, Charles E. | 1861 | 1896 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
173896 (434) |
17.9 | 1.52 | 12.1 | 60.3 | 9.3 |
| Details | The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
128461 (321) |
28.9 | 1.35 | 14.4 | 63.1 | 11.6 |
| Details | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
79615 (199) |
13.2 | 1.35 | 7.4 | 79.0 | 5.5 | |
| Details | Les Misérables | Hugo, Victor | Hapgood, Isabel Florence | 1802 (1850) | 1885 (1928) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
562958 (1407) |
15.6 | 1.5 | 10.9 | 64.1 | 8.2 |
| Details | Lysistrata | Aristophanes | 446BC | 385BC | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
14327 (35) |
12.9 | 1.49 | 9.4 | 67.9 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Three Musketeers | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
227889 (569) |
14.7 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 7.6 | |
| Details | Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 | Boy Scouts of America | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
122326 (305) |
15.9 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 64.8 | 8.2 | |||
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.