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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 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 Textiles and Clothing Watson, Kate Heintz 4000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 41633
    (104)
    17.9 1.52 11.6 59.8 9.4
    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 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 Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O Zerbe, James Slough 1850 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 21000 37590
    (93)
    11.4 1.51 9.2 67.5 6.7
    Details A Course In Wood Turning ?-Milton, Archie Seldon 1887 3000 5000 9000 11000 11000 14000 13683
    (34)
    16.0 1.43 9.9 69.3 7.6
    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 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 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 Big Trip Up Yonder Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 3000 5000 12000 16000 16000 16000 3562
    (8)
    13.5 1.49 9.6 66.9 7.3
    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 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 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 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 The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 175708
    (439)
    16.8 1.62 12.6 53.1 10.0
    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 Little Black Sambo Bannerman, Helen 1862 1946 4000 5000 12000 12000 12000 12000 1153
    (2)
    16.0 1.41 9.0 71.2 7.3
    Details History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) 1873 1930 3000 5000 7000 11000 15000 23000 113094
    (282)
    27.4 1.61 17.3 43.2 14.0
    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 Anarchism and Other Essays Goldman, Emma 1869 1940 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 67167
    (167)
    21.2 1.64 15.1 46.2 12.1
    Details Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street Melville, Herman 1819 1891 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 19000 14288
    (35)
    17.6 1.57 12.3 56.2 9.8
    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 Four Million Henry, O. 1862 1910 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 51419
    (128)
    14.7 1.47 9.6 67.7 7.5
    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 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 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 Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. I of II) Bucke, Charles 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 144564
    (361)
    24.0 1.58 15.7 48.5 12.5
    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 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 Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868 1963 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 68801
    (172)
    25.9 1.53 14.9 51.3 12.5
    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 Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Harvey, Alexander Miller 1844 (1867) 1900 (1928) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 18000 36537
    (91)
    32.2 1.65 19.7 34.9 16.4
    Details Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 5000 9000 10000 12000 18000 96556
    (241)
    32.8 1.5 18.0 46.6 14.9
    Details Man and Superman Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 3000 5000 9000 14000 14000 18000 68390
    (170)
    12.1 1.51 9.4 66.6 7.0
    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 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Molière Jones, Philip Dwight 1622 1673 3000 5000 9000 10000 14000 16000 18257
    (45)
    11.3 1.49 8.4 69.7 6.3

    Notes:

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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.