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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 My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition Anonymous 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 15000 263497
    (658)
    18.4 1.37 9.6 72.1 7.8
    Details White Fang London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 16000 71789
    (179)
    15.2 1.41 9.4 72.1 7.0
    Details Encyclopedia of Needlework Dillmont, Thérèse de 1846 1890 4000 5000 10000 15000 22000 22000 126757
    (316)
    14.1 1.42 8.7 72.4 6.7
    Details Four Arthurian Romances Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. Comfort, William Wistar (1874) (1955) 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 20000 189648
    (474)
    20.4 1.34 10.7 72.4 8.2
    Details My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kr Kronheim, Joseph Martin 1810 1896 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 4593
    (11)
    22.7 1.32 10.4 72.5 8.8
    Details Poems Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865 1939 3000 5000 9000 11000 13000 22000 36280
    (90)
    20.6 1.34 10.0 72.5 8.3
    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 Handwork in Wood Noyes, William 1862 1928 3000 5000 10000 13000 17000 21000 58844
    (147)
    9.0 1.48 7.3 72.5 5.4
    Details A Room with a View Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879 1970 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 65560
    (163)
    11.3 1.45 8.3 72.5 5.9
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 54516
    (136)
    12.9 1.43 8.6 72.6 6.3
    Details Love Among the Chickens Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 49955
    (124)
    11.2 1.45 7.9 72.7 5.9
    Details Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) 1859 1924 3000 4000 9000 12000 13000 19000 18024
    (45)
    13.6 1.42 9.1 72.7 6.5
    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 Women in Love Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 179224
    (448)
    11.2 1.45 8.1 72.8 5.9
    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 Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) (1823) (1900) 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 16000 11680
    (29)
    12.8 1.43 8.7 73.0 6.3
    Details Anne of the Island Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 75570
    (188)
    12.7 1.43 8.3 73.0 6.2
    Details Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 9000 12000 17000 37282
    (93)
    11.9 1.44 7.9 73.0 6.0
    Details Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Burns, Robert 1759 1796 6000 9000 17000 22000 24000 25000 125988
    (314)
    17.1 1.38 8.6 73.1 7.3
    Details Greenmantle Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 98151
    (245)
    14.7 1.4 8.6 73.2 6.7
    Details His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 6059
    (15)
    12.9 1.43 8.1 73.2 6.3
    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 The Yellow Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 111039
    (277)
    21.0 1.33 10.6 73.2 8.3
    Details Dracula Stoker, Bram 1847 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 159139
    (397)
    18.2 1.36 9.8 73.3 7.5
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 78609
    (196)
    12.1 1.43 8.3 73.3 6.0
    Details Life Is a Dream Calderón de la Barca, Pedro FitzGerald, Edward 1600 (1809) 1681 (1883) 3000 5000 9000 13000 16000 19000 17220
    (43)
    16.5 1.38 9.4 73.3 7.1
    Details Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite Molière Page, Curtis Hidden 1622 (1870) 1673 (1946) 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 18064
    (45)
    15.4 1.39 8.7 73.3 6.9
    Details Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich West, Julius 1860 (1891) 1904 (1918) 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 17000 66807
    (167)
    9.8 1.46 7.6 73.3 5.5
    Details Andersen's Fairy Tales Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 55132
    (137)
    17.7 1.36 9.6 73.4 7.4
    Details Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous 4000 4000 9000 14000 15000 17000 20223
    (50)
    16.2 1.38 8.7 73.6 7.0
    Details Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875) (1936) 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 18000 491525
    (1228)
    16.4 1.38 9.5 73.6 7.1
    Details The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details A Young Girl's Diary Anonymous Paul, Eden (1865) (1944) 1000 2000 5000 8000 13000 15000 87209
    (218)
    15.5 1.39 8.9 73.6 6.9
    Details The Amateur Cracksman Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William) 1866 1921 2000 4000 8000 9000 12000 16000 51615
    (129)
    13.7 1.41 8.4 73.7 6.4
    Details The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 111009
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics Laozi Legge, James (1815) (1897) 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 10365
    (25)
    13.8 1.41 9.4 73.7 6.4
    Details The Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 110924
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details Secret Adversary Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 74269
    (185)
    9.2 1.46 7.6 73.8 5.3
    Details An Imperial Marriage Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 21000 94091
    (235)
    14.1 1.4 8.7 73.9 6.5
    Details Kim Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 3000 5000 10000 15000 16000 22000 103135
    (257)
    12.6 1.42 7.8 73.9 6.1
    Details The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 86027
    (215)
    18.6 1.35 9.6 74.0 7.6
    Details 2 B R 0 2 B Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 2000 3000 7000 9000 10000 14000 2501
    (6)
    9.4 1.46 7.5 74.1 5.3
    Details The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 14000 706
    (1)
    18.6 1.35 9.2 74.1 7.5
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first ti Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 15000 65747
    (164)
    13.9 1.4 8.5 74.1 6.4
    Details Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Keats, John 1795 1821 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 24000 38774
    (96)
    11.3 1.43 7.9 74.1 5.7
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 29106
    (72)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 1000 2000 5000 8000 11000 15000 6023
    (15)
    15.4 1.38 8.3 74.2 6.7
    Details Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 68147
    (170)
    17.8 1.35 9.3 74.2 7.3
    Details The Gift of the Magi Henry, O. 1862 1910 2000 5000 7000 11000 12000 14000 2038
    (5)
    12.6 1.42 8.1 74.2 6.0

    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.