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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 Prufrock and Other Observations Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 3812
    (9)    		 24.3 1.44 12.9 60.7 10.8
    Details Roget's Thesaurus Roget, Peter Mark 1779 1869 10000 14000 19000 21000 23000 25000 180410
    (451)    		 9.1 1.94 13.6 33.6 10.8
    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 The Pencil of Nature Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800 1877 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 14000 9368
    (23)    		 19.4 1.6 13.8 52.0 10.8
    Details On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Carlyle, Thomas 1795 1881 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 87919
    (219)    		 22.6 1.49 13.4 58.1 10.8
    Details The Art of Politicks Bramston, James 1694 1744 4000 8000 12000 17000 20000 24000 10432
    (26)    		 16.9 1.68 13.6 47.7 10.8
    Details The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne 1820 1849 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 166923
    (417)    		 23.0 1.47 13.2 59.0 10.8
    Details Persuasion Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 82646
    (206)    		 22.7 1.49 13.7 57.7 10.9
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)    		 21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    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 How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents a Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor 1873 1935 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 134858
    (337)    		 19.9 1.58 13.6 52.7 10.9
    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 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 Descent of Man Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 298564
    (746)    		 17.6 1.66 14.0 48.4 10.9
    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 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 335852
    (839)    		 20.4 1.57 13.6 53.1 10.9
    Details Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 6000 7000 11000 15000 15145
    (37)    		 23.0 1.49 13.8 57.4 11.0
    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 Bontoc Igorot Jenks, Albert Ernest 1869 1953 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 103603
    (259)    		 22.1 1.53 13.3 55.2 11.0
    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 Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience Matthews, Ike 1857 1913 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 14490
    (36)    		 26.6 1.37 13.1 63.8 11.0
    Details Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People Mallery, Garrick 1831 1894 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 115635
    (289)    		 19.9 1.6 14.1 51.4 11.0
    Details Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Richardson, Samuel 1689 1761 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 221156
    (552)    		 26.6 1.37 13.2 63.7 11.0
    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 Architecture Classic and Early Christian Slater, John 1847 1924 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 54084
    (135)    		 18.1 1.66 14.3 48.4 11.0
    Details Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 72871
    (182)    		 22.0 1.53 13.8 54.7 11.1
    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 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 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 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 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 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 Arabian nights. English Anonymous Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 4000 6000 11000 14000 18000 22000 172497
    (431)    		 25.8 1.41 13.4 61.6 11.1
    Details Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1265 (1807) 1321 (1882) 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23000 38252
    (95)    		 26.1 1.4 13.6 62.1 11.1
    Details The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 9530
    (23)    		 19.3 1.62 13.7 50.2 11.1
    Details The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Churchill, Winston 1874 1965 3000 5000 9000 13000 13000 23000 124226
    (310)    		 19.9 1.61 14.3 50.3 11.2
    Details The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Digby, Kenelm 1603 1665 3000 6000 10000 14000 18000 23000 92490
    (231)    		 27.3 1.37 13.1 63.1 11.2
    Details Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Welsh, Peter C. 3000 5000 9000 13000 14000 21000 11740
    (29)    		 15.1 1.77 14.4 41.3 11.3
    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 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 Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 120454
    (301)    		 22.9 1.52 14.4 55.1 11.3
    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 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 Human Animals Hamel, Frank 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 97180
    (242)    		 23.3 1.51 14.0 55.5 11.3
    Details The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Wayburn, Ned 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 108666
    (271)    		 22.1 1.55 14.4 53.4 11.3
    Details The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 187931
    (469)    		 24.6 1.47 14.0 57.4 11.4
    Details From sketch-book and diary Butler, Elizabeth 1846 1933 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 34038
    (85)    		 23.5 1.51 13.6 55.4 11.4
    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 Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 16000 9490
    (23)    		 22.0 1.56 13.9 52.8 11.4
    Details Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Montessori, Maria 1870 1952 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 17000 24376
    (60)    		 22.4 1.54 14.6 53.4 11.4

    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.