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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome | 121 | 180 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
71538 (178) |
21.0 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 60.9 | 10.0 | |
Details | The Beautiful and Damned | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
121625 (304) |
14.9 | 1.54 | 11.1 | 61.3 | 8.4 | |
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 | Symbolic Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 |
46466 (116) |
8.4 | 1.53 | 8.2 | 68.5 | 5.8 | |
Details | Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 | Cole, E. W. (Edward William) | 1832 | 1918 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
141555 (353) |
20.6 | 1.38 | 10.6 | 68.8 | 8.8 | |
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 | An Introduction to the History of Science | Libby, Walter | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
71214 (178) |
18.6 | 1.72 | 15.3 | 42.9 | 11.9 | |||
Details | The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record | Burnham, George P. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
66073 (165) |
17.7 | 1.54 | 11.9 | 58.9 | 9.5 | |||
Details | All About Coffee | Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) | 1873 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
387030 (967) |
13.8 | 1.67 | 11.8 | 51.5 | 9.5 | |
Details | A Watcher in The Woods | Sharp, Dallas Lore | 1870 | 1929 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30932 (77) |
20.5 | 1.42 | 10.9 | 65.8 | 9.2 | |
Details | Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 24000 |
46927 (117) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.3 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
Details | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33286 (83) |
24.8 | 1.57 | 15.5 | 48.5 | 12.7 | |
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 Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
35371 (88) |
24.1 | 1.35 | 12.3 | 68.0 | 9.8 | ||||
Details | The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48890 (122) |
17.0 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 66.8 | 8.2 | |
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 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
12261 (30) |
19.3 | 1.3 | 9.7 | 77.1 | 7.3 | |
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 | A Sailor of King George | Hoffman, Frederick, Captain | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
89006 (222) |
19.3 | 1.48 | 11.9 | 62.0 | 9.4 | |||
Details | The Oxford Book of American Essays | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
161947 (404) |
24.8 | 1.55 | 15.1 | 50.8 | 12.3 | ||||
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 | 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 | Short-Stories | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
73428 (183) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.6 | 61.2 | 9.0 | ||||
Details | The Innocence of Father Brown | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 18000 |
78581 (196) |
17.7 | 1.46 | 10.9 | 65.5 | 8.5 | |
Details | The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America | United States | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
1478 (3) |
39.9 | 1.71 | 24.3 | 21.5 | 20.2 | |||
Details | Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works | Kalidasa | Ryder, Arthur W. (Arthur William) | (1877) | (1938) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
61590 (153) |
14.2 | 1.49 | 9.7 | 66.8 | 7.5 |
Details | An Elementary Study of Insects | Haseman, Leonard | 1884 | 1969 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
17942 (44) |
17.6 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.5 | 8.4 | |
Details | The 2010 CIA World Factbook | United States. Central Intelligence Agency | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
1297237 (3243) |
13.8 | 2.0 | 16.9 | 23.4 | 13.4 | |||
Details | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
35903 (89) |
29.4 | 1.66 | 19.0 | 36.4 | 15.5 | |
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 | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48155 (120) |
31.1 | 1.71 | 20.6 | 30.5 | 16.7 | |
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 | Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Common, Thomas | 1844 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 19000 |
110254 (275) |
15.5 | 1.48 | 10.1 | 66.0 | 7.9 |
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 | De vita Caesarum | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius | 75 | 160 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
228866 (572) |
26.5 | 1.63 | 17.5 | 42.4 | 13.9 | |
Details | The Essays of Montaigne — Complete | Montaigne, Michel de | Cotton, Charles | 1533 (1630) | 1592 (1687) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
524667 (1311) |
38.4 | 1.52 | 20.3 | 39.6 | 17.3 |
Details | The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
82835 (207) |
23.3 | 1.53 | 14.2 | 54.0 | 11.5 | |
Details | Leaves of Grass | Whitman, Walt | 1819 | 1892 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
120543 (301) |
33.2 | 1.46 | 16.8 | 49.9 | 14.6 | |
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 Prince and the Pauper | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
69129 (172) |
40.3 | 1.43 | 19.6 | 44.9 | 17.0 | |
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 | 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 | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Taylor, Bayard | 1749 (1825) | 1832 (1878) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
36297 (90) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.6 | 71.3 | 6.6 |
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.