This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 | Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English | Stanton, Henry | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
13663 (34) |
20.6 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.6 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | Précis de l'art de la guerre. English | Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de | Mendell, George H. (George Henry) | 1779 (1831) | 1869 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
139359 (348) |
21.4 | 1.63 | 15.5 | 46.9 | 12.0 |
| Details | Anabasis | Xenophon | Dakyns, Henry Graham | 431BC (1838) | 350BC (1911) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
93859 (234) |
26.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 55.8 | 12.0 |
| Details | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
256688 (641) |
18.6 | 1.72 | 15.8 | 42.3 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | History of the United States | Beard, Mary Ritter | 1876 | 1958 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
199929 (499) |
18.8 | 1.71 | 15.4 | 42.7 | 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 | 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 | A Short History of the World | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
111386 (278) |
20.1 | 1.68 | 15.2 | 44.4 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Phaedo | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 16000 |
42694 (106) |
26.6 | 1.46 | 15.2 | 56.0 | 12.1 |
| Details | Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The | Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' | Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) | 1723 (1771) | 1789 (1797) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
39094 (97) |
21.4 | 1.64 | 15.8 | 46.2 | 12.1 |
| 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 | Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma | 1869 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
67167 (167) |
21.2 | 1.64 | 15.1 | 46.2 | 12.1 | |
| Details | New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in | Cotter, John L.Hudson, J. Paul | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 23000 |
15759 (39) |
19.1 | 1.71 | 15.1 | 42.4 | 12.1 | |||
| 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 | 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 | English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- | Long, William J. (William Joseph) | 1867 | 1952 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204834 (512) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.5 | 12.2 | |
| 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 | Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br | Vinycomb, John | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 16000 | 19000 | 23000 |
52424 (131) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.3 | 12.2 | |||
| 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 | A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles | Lee, Sidney, Sir | 1859 | 1926 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
132934 (332) |
20.0 | 1.69 | 15.5 | 43.2 | 12.2 | |
| Details | The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
184276 (460) |
22.1 | 1.62 | 15.5 | 47.0 | 12.2 | |
| Details | The Last Man | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
173882 (434) |
25.1 | 1.53 | 15.1 | 52.3 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi | Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von | Huggard, E. M. | 1646 | 1716 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 20000 |
184166 (460) |
24.4 | 1.56 | 15.6 | 50.1 | 12.3 |
| 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 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 | 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 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 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 | She | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
129365 (323) |
27.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 54.7 | 12.4 | |
| Details | The Old Road | Belloc, Hilaire | 1870 | 1953 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
54235 (135) |
27.0 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.2 | 12.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33806 (84) |
24.3 | 1.58 | 15.3 | 48.8 | 12.5 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas | Custer, Elizabeth B. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
136367 (340) |
27.0 | 1.49 | 15.2 | 53.3 | 12.5 | |||
| 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 | The American Horsewoman | Karr, Elizabeth | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70753 (176) |
27.7 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.0 | 12.6 | |||
| Details | The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy | James, William | 1842 | 1910 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
99183 (247) |
24.2 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 47.2 | 12.7 | |
| Details | Turner | Monkhouse, William Cosmo | 1840 | 1901 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39762 (99) |
26.3 | 1.52 | 15.5 | 51.2 | 12.7 | |
| Details | Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion | Ellis, Havelock | 1859 | 1939 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
162979 (407) |
21.7 | 1.68 | 15.6 | 42.9 | 12.7 | |
| 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 | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33286 (83) |
24.8 | 1.57 | 15.5 | 48.5 | 12.7 | |
| Details | Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 | Vogel, Robert M. | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
12934 (32) |
20.1 | 1.73 | 15.8 | 40.1 | 12.7 | |||
| 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 | |||
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.
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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.