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 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 Story of Versailles | Payne, Francis Loring | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
33903 (84) |
23.1 | 1.57 | 15.1 | 50.4 | 12.0 | |||
| 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 Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 | Perrault, Charles | Welsh, Charles | 1628 (1850) | 1703 (1914) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
18345 (45) |
23.2 | 1.36 | 11.8 | 67.9 | 9.6 |
| Details | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| Details | The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch | Petrarca, Francesco | 1304 | 1374 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
189869 (474) |
22.6 | 1.43 | 12.7 | 63.0 | 10.1 | |
| Details | The Satyricon — Complete | Petronius Arbiter | 20 | 66 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
97604 (244) |
25.3 | 1.52 | 14.9 | 52.9 | 12.2 | |
| Details | The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi | Pierce, Ray Vaughn | 1840 | 1914 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 21000 |
381700 (954) |
16.9 | 1.71 | 14.4 | 45.3 | 11.1 | |
| 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 | Omnilingual | Piper, H. Beam | 1904 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
16172 (40) |
14.5 | 1.52 | 10.4 | 63.4 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Apology | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
16049 (40) |
28.8 | 1.46 | 15.8 | 54.0 | 12.9 |
| Details | Euthyphro | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 8000 | 15000 | 19000 |
9188 (22) |
19.3 | 1.48 | 13.0 | 62.1 | 9.4 |
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
215540 (538) |
24.7 | 1.49 | 14.7 | 56.0 | 11.6 |
| Details | Phaedrus | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
38099 (95) |
30.0 | 1.5 | 16.9 | 49.6 | 13.8 |
| Details | Gorgias | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
59271 (148) |
23.6 | 1.5 | 14.7 | 56.3 | 11.3 |
| Details | Symposium | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32513 (81) |
31.4 | 1.49 | 17.4 | 49.1 | 14.2 |
| Details | Phaedo | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 16000 |
42694 (106) |
26.6 | 1.46 | 15.2 | 56.0 | 12.1 |
| Details | Meno | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 16000 |
22147 (55) |
19.6 | 1.5 | 12.8 | 59.8 | 9.8 |
| 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 | Theaetetus | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
65641 (164) |
23.9 | 1.53 | 15.2 | 53.2 | 11.8 |
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
124102 (310) |
22.4 | 1.45 | 13.2 | 61.6 | 10.2 |
| Details | Plutarch's Lives, Volume I | Plutarch | Stewart, Aubrey | 46 (1844) | 120 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184023 (460) |
32.8 | 1.53 | 18.6 | 44.0 | 15.3 |
| 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 | The Masque of the Red Death | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 18000 |
2384 (5) |
23.6 | 1.48 | 14.1 | 57.9 | 11.1 | |
| Details | The Cask of Amontillado | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 6000 | 11000 | 17000 | 19000 | 19000 |
2302 (5) |
10.0 | 1.51 | 8.4 | 68.9 | 6.1 | |
| Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
77252 (193) |
18.8 | 1.58 | 13.2 | 53.7 | 10.5 | |
| 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 | The Raven | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 24000 |
7059 (17) |
19.1 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 56.5 | 10.1 | |
| 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 | The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
58756 (146) |
19.8 | 1.5 | 12.5 | 59.8 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
| Details | An Essay on Man | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
46424 (116) |
19.3 | 1.37 | 10.5 | 71.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
54188 (135) |
19.7 | 1.47 | 12.1 | 62.2 | 9.5 | |
| 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 | Pollyanna | Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) | 1868 | 1920 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
54339 (135) |
11.6 | 1.4 | 7.8 | 76.5 | 5.5 | |
| Details | Etiquette | Post, Emily | 1873 | 1960 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
200614 (501) |
23.2 | 1.51 | 13.7 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |
| Details | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 |
991 (2) |
17.1 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 63.7 | 8.6 | |
| Details | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 13000 | 13000 |
1399 (3) |
13.9 | 1.54 | 9.0 | 62.5 | 8.0 | |
| Details | The Tale of Benjamin Bunny | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 |
1158 (2) |
16.5 | 1.51 | 10.3 | 62.5 | 8.7 | |
| Details | The Tale of Tom Kitten | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 3000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 13000 | 13000 |
754 (1) |
15.1 | 1.51 | 10.2 | 64.2 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
994 (2) |
16.3 | 1.54 | 11.0 | 60.2 | 8.9 | |
| Details | Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood | Prest, Thomas Preskett | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
327232 (818) |
18.9 | 1.43 | 11.3 | 66.6 | 8.7 | |||
| Details | Swann's Way | Proust, Marcel | Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) | 1871 (1889) | 1922 (1930) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
194407 (486) |
36.0 | 1.47 | 18.7 | 45.6 | 15.8 |
| Details | The Minute Man of the Frontier | Puddefoot, W. G. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
54821 (137) |
19.3 | 1.43 | 10.7 | 66.1 | 8.8 | |||
| Details | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Pyle, Howard | 1853 | 1911 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 22000 |
111009 (277) |
22.3 | 1.31 | 10.1 | 73.7 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Pyle, Howard | 1853 | 1911 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 22000 |
110924 (277) |
22.3 | 1.31 | 10.1 | 73.7 | 8.5 | |
| 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 | 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 |
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.