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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 Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 104617
    (261)    		 11.9 1.54 9.6 64.9 7.2
    Details Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)    		 21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    Details Poetics. English Aristotle Bywater, Ingram 384BC (1840) 322BC (1914) 3000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 18459
    (46)    		 26.1 1.54 16.2 49.9 12.8
    Details Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers Hughes, Talbot 1869 1942 4000 5000 10000 11000 14000 21000 30554
    (76)    		 12.8 1.54 9.6 63.9 7.5
    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 How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Lehmann, Lilli Aldrich, Richard 1848 (1863) 1929 (1937) 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 18000 31812
    (79)    		 25.4 1.54 15.2 50.7 12.5
    Details Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth Descartes, René 1596 1650 3000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 23024
    (57)    		 81.4 1.54 38.0 -5.7 34.3
    Details Politics: A Treatise on Government Aristotle Ellis, William 384BC 322BC 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 101343
    (253)    		 55.7 1.54 27.9 20.4 24.2
    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
    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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 73971
    (184)    		 27.2 1.54 16.1 49.0 13.2
    Details The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Wilson, Woodrow 1856 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 8000 14000 54535
    (136)    		 27.1 1.54 16.5 48.8 13.2
    Details The Art of Public Speaking Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) 1867 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 154880
    (387)    		 17.2 1.54 12.1 59.1 9.3
    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 Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 33314
    (83)    		 20.7 1.54 13.4 55.5 10.7
    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 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 Things Considered Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 59337
    (148)    		 21.3 1.54 13.6 54.7 10.9
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)    		 18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    Details The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 994
    (2)    		 16.3 1.54 11.0 60.2 8.9
    Details The Practice and Science of Drawing Speed, Harold 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 75941
    (189)    		 26.6 1.55 16.1 48.9 13.1
    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 El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)    		 19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)    		 7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    Details Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 21504
    (53)    		 31.1 1.55 18.1 44.2 14.8
    Details Omens and Superstitions of Southern India Thurston, Edgar 1855 1935 3000 5000 10000 13000 16000 23000 93609
    (234)    		 21.1 1.55 13.6 54.1 10.9
    Details Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) (1856) (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 25000 37282
    (93)    		 19.9 1.55 11.9 55.4 10.5
    Details Heretics Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 64184
    (160)    		 21.1 1.55 13.8 54.0 11.0
    Details Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822 1885 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 276868
    (692)    		 20.5 1.55 13.9 54.7 10.7
    Details The Monk; a romance Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) 1775 1818 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 136838
    (342)    		 17.3 1.55 12.7 58.1 9.5
    Details Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thomas, Aquinas, Saint 1225 1274 3000 4000 6000 11000 13000 20000 486564
    (1216)    		 17.0 1.55 12.7 58.7 9.3
    Details Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers Winks, William Edward 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 99421
    (248)    		 20.5 1.55 13.5 54.9 10.7
    Details The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written b Díaz del Castillo, Bernal Lockhart, John Ingram 1492 1585 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 19000 183124
    (457)    		 29.7 1.55 17.7 45.8 14.2
    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 The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)    		 19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    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 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 The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures Hopkins, Mark 1802 1887 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 15404
    (38)    		 32.4 1.55 18.6 43.2 15.3
    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 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 Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 19419
    (48)    		 29.7 1.55 17.5 45.4 14.3
    Details De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries Caesar, Julius McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) 100BC 44BC 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 158969
    (397)    		 33.9 1.55 19.3 41.0 16.0
    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 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 The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Yule, Henry, Sir (1820) (1889) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 313144
    (782)    		 16.0 1.55 11.7 59.5 8.9
    Details Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Bellamy, Edward 1850 1898 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 77522
    (193)    		 24.0 1.55 15.1 51.1 12.1
    Details The Grammar of English Grammars Brown, Goold 1791 1857 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 875923
    (2189)    		 10.3 1.55 9.6 65.3 6.7
    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 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 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

    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.