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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 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 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 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 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 Twice Told Tales Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 20000 145292
    (363)    		 23.8 1.5 13.9 55.3 11.5
    Details The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 20000 83847
    (209)    		 23.1 1.53 14.2 53.8 11.5
    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 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 Emile Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 14000 251868
    (629)    		 25.8 1.44 14.1 58.8 11.5
    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 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 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 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 Walking Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 17000 12032
    (30)    		 24.9 1.48 14.2 56.1 11.6
    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 Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt Baikie, James 1866 1931 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 26825
    (67)    		 27.7 1.39 14.0 61.2 11.6
    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 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 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 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 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 Silas Marner Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 70159
    (175)    		 26.6 1.43 13.8 58.8 11.7
    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 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 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 Warlord of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56940
    (142)    		 26.0 1.45 13.9 57.5 11.7
    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 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 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 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 Theaetetus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 65641
    (164)    		 23.9 1.53 15.2 53.2 11.8
    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 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 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 Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Edwards, Jonathan 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 70313
    (175)    		 25.6 1.49 15.3 55.1 11.9
    Details Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)    		 18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    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 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 Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script Talmage, James Edward 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 18000 294595
    (736)    		 23.6 1.55 15.2 51.9 11.9
    Details Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Elliott, James, Sir 1880 1959 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 36438
    (91)    		 20.3 1.66 15.5 45.7 11.9
    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 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 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Mackay, Charles 1814 1889 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 20000 273706
    (684)    		 23.0 1.57 15.0 50.7 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 Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Litchfield, Frederick 1850 1930 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 25000 73893
    (184)    		 20.4 1.66 15.3 45.4 12.0
    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 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 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

    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.