This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
768172 (1920) |
21.8 | 1.5 | 13.4 | 58.0 | 10.6 | |
| 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 | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
137832 (344) |
21.9 | 1.49 | 13.5 | 58.2 | 10.6 |
| Details | The House of Mirth | Wharton, Edith | 1862 | 1937 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
127415 (318) |
21.9 | 1.49 | 13.1 | 58.4 | 10.5 | |
| 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 | 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 | Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor | Upham, Charles Wentworth | 1802 | 1875 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
294773 (736) |
22.0 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 52.6 | 11.4 | |
| 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 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 | The Odyssey of Homer | Homer | Cowper, William | 750BC (1731) | 650BC (1800) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
116500 (291) |
22.1 | 1.43 | 12.4 | 63.1 | 10.0 |
| Details | Moral Principles in Education | Dewey, John | 1859 | 1952 | 3000 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 12000 |
10720 (26) |
22.1 | 1.69 | 16.1 | 41.4 | 13.0 | |
| Details | The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
184276 (460) |
22.1 | 1.62 | 15.5 | 47.0 | 12.2 | |
| 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 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 | Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit | Harris, Joel Chandler | 1848 | 1908 | 2000 | 6000 | 9000 | 14000 | 17000 | 22000 |
6823 (17) |
22.2 | 1.24 | 10.0 | 79.0 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton | 1878 | 1968 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
147652 (369) |
22.3 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.4 | 9.5 | |
| Details | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Grimm, Jacob | 1785 | 1863 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
100994 (252) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.4 | 76.2 | 8.2 | |
| Details | The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes | Henry VIII, King of England | 1491 | 1547 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
5585 (13) |
22.3 | 1.42 | 12.3 | 64.4 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm | Grimm, Wilhelm | Crane, Lucy | 1786 (1842) | 1859 (1882) | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
88523 (221) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.5 | 75.7 | 8.2 |
| Details | Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War | Saussure, Mrs. N. B. de | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
16693 (41) |
22.3 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 59.5 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84282 (210) |
22.3 | 1.46 | 12.9 | 60.3 | 10.4 | ||||
| Details | The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete | Dante Alighieri | Cary, Henry Francis | 1265 (1772) | 1321 (1844) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
36446 (91) |
22.3 | 1.34 | 11.1 | 71.3 | 8.8 |
| Details | Vanity Fair | Thackeray, William Makepeace | 1811 | 1863 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
298755 (746) |
22.3 | 1.48 | 13.0 | 59.0 | 10.6 | |
| 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 | 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 | Sailing Alone Around the World | Slocum, Joshua | 1844 | 1910 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 13000 | 20000 |
69436 (173) |
22.4 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 62.0 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| Details | Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete | Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de | 1769 | 1834 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
484139 (1210) |
22.4 | 1.6 | 15.6 | 48.9 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
74768 (186) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.3 | 52.9 | 11.5 | |
| Details | The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With | Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) | 1843 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
200768 (501) |
22.5 | 1.58 | 14.8 | 50.5 | 11.8 | |
| Details | What's Wrong with the World | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
59904 (149) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 52.8 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Mansfield Park | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
157622 (394) |
22.6 | 1.48 | 13.3 | 59.1 | 10.6 | |
| 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 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 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 | 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 Mill on the Floss | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
204609 (511) |
22.6 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 62.3 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kr | Kronheim, Joseph Martin | 1810 | 1896 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
4593 (11) |
22.7 | 1.32 | 10.4 | 72.5 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship | Jack, George | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
40537 (101) |
22.7 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 51.9 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Biblical Geography and History | Kent, Charles Foster | 1867 | 1925 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 22000 |
99638 (249) |
22.8 | 1.62 | 15.4 | 46.3 | 12.5 | |
| Details | 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
11354 (28) |
22.8 | 1.57 | 14.4 | 51.0 | 11.8 | |
| 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 | English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- | Long, William J. (William Joseph) | 1867 | 1952 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204834 (512) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.5 | 12.2 | |
| 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 | Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br | Vinycomb, John | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 16000 | 19000 | 23000 |
52424 (131) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.3 | 12.2 | |||
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.