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 | A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Sedgwick, Anne Douglas | 1873 | 1935 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
27814 (69) |
22.9 | 1.47 | 12.8 | 59.5 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 |
15145 (37) |
23.0 | 1.49 | 13.8 | 57.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Grimm's Fairy Stories | Grimm, Wilhelm | 1786 | 1859 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
50632 (126) |
23.0 | 1.31 | 11.1 | 72.8 | 8.8 | |
| 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 Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph | Belloc, Hilaire | 1864 (1870) | 1938 (1953) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
25763 (64) |
23.0 | 1.28 | 10.7 | 75.3 | 8.5 |
| Details | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Brontë, Anne | 1820 | 1849 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
166923 (417) |
23.0 | 1.47 | 13.2 | 59.0 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | The Iliad | Homer | Pope, Alexander | 750BC (1688) | 650BC (1744) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
188352 (470) |
23.1 | 1.42 | 12.7 | 63.4 | 10.2 |
| Details | Beowulf | Gummere, Francis Barton | (1855) | (1919) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 | 24000 |
25594 (63) |
23.1 | 1.37 | 11.2 | 67.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | A Child's Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
8785 (21) |
23.1 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 68.7 | 9.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Story of Versailles | Payne, Francis Loring | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
33903 (84) |
23.1 | 1.57 | 15.1 | 50.4 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin | Various | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
130202 (325) |
23.1 | 1.58 | 15.0 | 49.8 | 12.0 | |||
| 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 Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 | Perrault, Charles | Welsh, Charles | 1628 (1850) | 1703 (1914) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
18345 (45) |
23.2 | 1.36 | 11.8 | 67.9 | 9.6 |
| Details | Etiquette | Post, Emily | 1873 | 1960 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
200614 (501) |
23.2 | 1.51 | 13.7 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |
| 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 | Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Exp | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
231338 (578) |
23.3 | 1.65 | 16.3 | 43.5 | 13.0 | |
| Details | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Browning, Robert | 1812 | 1889 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 16000 | 20000 |
2145 (5) |
23.3 | 1.38 | 11.3 | 66.5 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Human Animals | Hamel, Frank | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
97180 (242) |
23.3 | 1.51 | 14.0 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | Poetics. English | Aristotle | Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) | 384BC (1850) | 322BC (1910) | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 12000 | 14000 | 18000 |
15099 (37) |
23.4 | 1.59 | 16.0 | 48.9 | 12.2 |
| 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 | From sketch-book and diary | Butler, Elizabeth | 1846 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
34038 (85) |
23.5 | 1.51 | 13.6 | 55.4 | 11.4 | |
| Details | Black Beauty | Sewell, Anna | 1820 | 1878 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
59721 (149) |
23.5 | 1.31 | 10.9 | 72.5 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | Alexander the Great Makers of History | Abbott, Jacob | 1803 | 1879 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
52859 (132) |
23.5 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 48.0 | 12.4 | |
| Details | Workhouse Characters and other sketches of the life of the poor. | Nevinson, Margaret Wynne | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
36252 (90) |
23.5 | 1.41 | 12.2 | 63.7 | 10.2 | |||
| Details | The Masque of the Red Death | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 18000 |
2384 (5) |
23.6 | 1.48 | 14.1 | 57.9 | 11.1 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 | Lacroix, John Victor | 1882 | 4000 | 8000 | 15000 | 20000 | 22000 | 25000 |
78588 (196) |
23.6 | 1.79 | 18.6 | 31.1 | 14.8 | ||
| Details | The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians | Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir | 1857 | 1934 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
98023 (245) |
23.6 | 1.44 | 13.3 | 61.2 | 10.6 | |
| Details | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | Berens, E.M. | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
104008 (260) |
23.7 | 1.62 | 16.1 | 45.3 | 12.8 | |||
| 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 | Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education | Dewey, John | 1859 | 1952 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 |
134869 (337) |
23.7 | 1.73 | 17.5 | 36.1 | 14.1 | |
| Details | De Profundis | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
17584 (43) |
23.7 | 1.41 | 13.1 | 63.2 | 10.3 | |
| 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 | Artistic Anatomy of Animals | Cuyer, Édouard | 5000 | 9000 | 16000 | 20000 | 22000 | 25000 |
90251 (225) |
23.8 | 1.67 | 17.0 | 41.5 | 13.4 | |||
| Details | Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenome | Ellis, Havelock | 1859 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
133904 (334) |
23.8 | 1.71 | 17.1 | 38.2 | 13.8 | |
| Details | The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philoso | Mackey, Albert Gallatin | 1807 | 1881 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
100385 (250) |
23.8 | 1.65 | 16.8 | 43.3 | 13.1 | |
| 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 | Lang, Andrew | 1844 | 1912 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
111534 (278) |
23.9 | 1.4 | 12.9 | 63.8 | 10.3 | |
| Details | Nationalism | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
26616 (66) |
24.0 | 1.56 | 15.2 | 50.2 | 12.2 | |
| 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 | 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 Communist Manifesto | Engels, Friedrich | 1820 | 1895 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
11413 (28) |
24.1 | 1.81 | 19.1 | 29.5 | 15.1 | |
| Details | Allan Quatermain | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
105546 (263) |
24.1 | 1.43 | 13.0 | 61.5 | 10.7 | |
| 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 | ||||
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.