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 | My Bondage and My Freedom | Douglass, Frederick | 1818 | 1895 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
131906 (329) |
23.6 | 1.51 | 14.2 | 54.7 | 11.5 | |
| Details | The Piazza Tales | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
78731 (196) |
23.0 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 52.4 | 11.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | Metamorphosis | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
21986 (54) |
28.3 | 1.39 | 14.3 | 60.4 | 11.9 |
| 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 | Queen Victoria | Browne, E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) | 1871 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
33632 (84) |
23.2 | 1.54 | 14.3 | 53.4 | 11.6 | ||
| Details | Up from Slavery: an autobiography | Washington, Booker T. | 1856 | 1915 | 2000 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 12000 |
76133 (190) |
24.6 | 1.5 | 14.3 | 55.1 | 11.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
128461 (321) |
28.9 | 1.35 | 14.4 | 63.1 | 11.6 |
| 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 | 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 | The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told | Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) | 1861 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
104277 (260) |
20.9 | 1.61 | 14.4 | 49.3 | 11.6 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec | Aristotle | 384BC | 322BC | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
107312 (268) |
26.1 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.5 | 11.7 | |
| Details | The Invention of Lithography | Senefelder, Alois | Muller, J. W. | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
87110 (217) |
24.2 | 1.54 | 14.5 | 52.3 | 12.0 | ||
| Details | The Grand Inquisitor | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) | 1821 (1831) | 1881 (1891) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
9588 (23) |
25.6 | 1.46 | 14.5 | 57.7 | 11.6 |
| Details | Concerning the Spiritual in Art | Kandinsky, Wassily | Sadleir, Michael | 1866 (1888) | 1944 (1957) | 3000 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
26025 (65) |
20.0 | 1.64 | 14.5 | 47.8 | 11.6 |
| Details | Merlin A Poem | Robinson, Edwin Arlington | 1869 | 1935 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
21993 (54) |
29.6 | 1.35 | 14.5 | 62.2 | 11.9 | |
| Details | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
86554 (216) |
26.2 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | Adventurings in the Psychical | Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) | 1874 | 1959 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
56849 (142) |
21.3 | 1.6 | 14.5 | 49.8 | 11.6 | |
| Details | Lady Susan | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 |
22830 (57) |
23.7 | 1.54 | 14.6 | 52.6 | 11.8 | |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 | Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate | Nevinson, John L. | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 25000 |
9332 (23) |
20.1 | 1.67 | 14.7 | 45.4 | 11.9 | |||
| 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 | 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 | The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study | Martin, Everett Dean | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70365 (175) |
18.9 | 1.69 | 14.8 | 44.7 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 | Cooper, James Fenimore | 1789 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
148091 (370) |
24.8 | 1.51 | 14.8 | 54.0 | 11.9 | |
| Details | Sense and Sensibility | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
117920 (294) |
24.3 | 1.51 | 14.9 | 54.1 | 11.8 | |
| Details | The Canterville Ghost | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
11587 (28) |
26.1 | 1.49 | 14.9 | 54.5 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
45835 (114) |
19.7 | 1.67 | 14.9 | 45.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) | 1873 | 1936 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
149754 (374) |
21.1 | 1.64 | 14.9 | 46.6 | 12.0 | |
| 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 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 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 Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 19000 |
25020 (62) |
26.8 | 1.48 | 14.9 | 54.8 | 12.3 | |||
| Details | Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
114891 (287) |
27.9 | 1.46 | 15.0 | 55.4 | 12.5 | |
| Details | The Iliad | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
152112 (380) |
31.0 | 1.35 | 15.0 | 61.5 | 12.4 |
| Details | Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
132745 (331) |
17.9 | 1.72 | 15.0 | 42.8 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) | Engel, Carl | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
71969 (179) |
19.4 | 1.67 | 15.0 | 45.6 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Beast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations wit | Kipling, John Lockwood | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93292 (233) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.0 | 51.1 | 12.4 | |||
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.