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 | The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series | Addison, Joseph | 1672 | 1719 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
929911 (2324) |
26.0 | 1.51 | 15.2 | 52.3 | 12.4 | |
| Details | First Lessons in Geography Or, Introduction to Youth's Manual of Geography | Monteith, James | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 17000 |
5269 (13) |
3.1 | 1.69 | 7.6 | 60.8 | 5.5 | |||
| 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 | Supply and Demand | Henderson, Hubert Douglas, Sir | 1890 | 1952 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
50755 (126) |
23.5 | 1.61 | 15.9 | 46.8 | 12.6 | |
| Details | Right Ho, Jeeves | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 13000 | 17000 | 24000 |
73251 (183) |
11.4 | 1.44 | 7.8 | 73.2 | 5.9 | |
| Details | Ivanhoe | Scott, Walter, Sir | 1771 | 1832 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
190957 (477) |
28.7 | 1.49 | 16.0 | 51.5 | 13.2 | |
| Details | Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 | Various | 5000 | 9000 | 15000 | 18000 | 20000 | 24000 |
53847 (134) |
4.6 | 1.89 | 10.4 | 42.6 | 8.5 | |||
| Details | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1730 | 1774 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
22563 (56) |
8.3 | 1.42 | 6.0 | 78.2 | 4.4 | |
| 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 | Plays | Glaspell, Susan | 1882 | 1948 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 |
52567 (131) |
10.5 | 1.36 | 6.7 | 80.9 | 4.6 | |
| Details | Stories from Hans Andersen | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
36988 (92) |
18.2 | 1.34 | 9.4 | 75.1 | 7.3 | |
| 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 | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
86554 (216) |
26.2 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | Civil Disobedience | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
9251 (23) |
26.4 | 1.5 | 15.2 | 53.5 | 12.3 | |
| Details | The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do | Popular Mechanics Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
231737 (579) |
15.1 | 1.44 | 9.7 | 69.8 | 7.3 | |||
| Details | Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
28603 (71) |
17.3 | 1.38 | 9.0 | 72.8 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Strictures on Nullification | Everett, Alexander Hill | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
30117 (75) |
36.3 | 1.66 | 22.0 | 29.6 | 18.2 | |||
| Details | Dodo Wonders | Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) | 1867 | 1940 | 2000 | 4000 | 9000 | 15000 | 15000 | 16000 |
64785 (161) |
16.2 | 1.45 | 10.0 | 68.1 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Story of Doctor Dolittle | Lofting, Hugh | 1886 | 1947 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 |
25697 (64) |
14.6 | 1.33 | 7.6 | 79.6 | 5.8 | |
| Details | Theory of the Leisure Class | Veblen, Thorstein | 1857 | 1929 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 13000 | 19000 |
105017 (262) |
33.7 | 1.76 | 21.7 | 24.1 | 18.3 | |
| 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 Wendigo | Blackwood, Algernon | 1869 | 1951 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
18159 (45) |
21.0 | 1.49 | 12.9 | 59.1 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | Biblical Geography and History | Kent, Charles Foster | 1867 | 1925 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 22000 |
99638 (249) |
22.8 | 1.62 | 15.4 | 46.3 | 12.5 | |
| Details | Short Stories | Dostoievski, Fiodor | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
79953 (199) |
15.4 | 1.48 | 10.3 | 66.3 | 7.8 | |||
| Details | The American Horsewoman | Karr, Elizabeth | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70753 (176) |
27.7 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.0 | 12.6 | |||
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | Discoverers and Explorers | Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard) | 1855 | 1903 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 | 17000 |
20101 (50) |
19.6 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 61.4 | 9.6 | |
| Details | The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Digby, Kenelm | 1603 | 1665 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 | 23000 |
92490 (231) |
27.3 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.1 | 11.2 | |
| Details | The Lost World | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
75381 (188) |
17.0 | 1.47 | 10.9 | 65.2 | 8.4 | |
| Details | A Damsel in Distress | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
76064 (190) |
11.6 | 1.46 | 8.3 | 71.8 | 6.1 | |
| 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 | Gretchen A Novel | Holmes, Mary J. | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
173864 (434) |
23.1 | 1.36 | 11.8 | 68.0 | 9.5 | |||
| Details | Daisy Miller | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
21009 (52) |
12.8 | 1.52 | 10.0 | 65.3 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Email 101 | Goodwin, John | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 19000 |
19561 (48) |
15.1 | 1.63 | 12.3 | 53.6 | 9.5 | |||
| 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 | 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 | In the Year 2889 | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 |
5492 (13) |
13.1 | 1.57 | 11.0 | 60.7 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Cautionary Tales for Children | Belloc, Hilaire | 1870 | 1953 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
2620 (6) |
16.4 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and | Mc | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 18000 |
63686 (159) |
20.7 | 1.51 | 13.1 | 58.4 | 10.3 | |||
| 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 Madman | Gibran, Khalil | 1883 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
7034 (17) |
17.5 | 1.36 | 9.1 | 74.3 | 7.2 | |
| 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 | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
79765 (199) |
13.2 | 1.35 | 7.4 | 78.9 | 5.5 | |
| Details | Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
100810 (252) |
18.0 | 1.48 | 11.5 | 63.6 | 8.9 | ||||
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.