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    (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 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 Ghostly Phenomena O'Donnell, Elliott 1872 1965 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 15000 34834
    (87)
    25.6 1.56 15.5 48.9 12.8
    Details A Child's History of England Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 161921
    (404)
    29.2 1.44 15.5 55.5 12.8
    Details Apology Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 16049
    (40)
    28.8 1.46 15.8 54.0 12.9
    Details The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)
    30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details Love and Freindship [sic] Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32937
    (82)
    26.6 1.53 16.0 50.0 12.9
    Details Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 183540
    (458)
    24.9 1.6 16.0 46.6 12.9
    Details The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Equiano, Olaudah 1745 1797 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 81664
    (204)
    29.1 1.46 15.7 53.5 13.0
    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 Moral Principles in Education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 10720
    (26)
    22.1 1.69 16.1 41.4 13.0
    Details The Evolution of Fashion Gardiner, Florence Mary 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 28786
    (71)
    24.8 1.61 15.8 45.8 13.0
    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 A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and P Dewey, Melvil 1851 1931 5000 8000 12000 15000 18000 23000 11325
    (28)
    9.2 2.13 16.5 17.7 13.1
    Details The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat Celnart, Elisabeth 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 45211
    (113)
    26.3 1.56 16.2 48.0 13.1
    Details The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 303152
    (757)
    22.2 1.7 16.6 40.5 13.1
    Details The Mysteries of Udolpho Radcliffe, Ann Ward 1764 1823 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 289394
    (723)
    27.3 1.53 16.5 49.8 13.1
    Details Bushido, the Soul of Japan Nitobe, Inazo 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 19000 33042
    (82)
    25.1 1.6 16.0 46.1 13.1
    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 A Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)
    28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details The Essays of Francis Bacon Bacon, Francis 1561 1626 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 52994
    (132)
    29.0 1.48 16.2 51.9 13.2
    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 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 History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) Maspero, G. (Gaston) McClure, M. L. 1846 1916 (1918) 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 24000 92419
    (231)
    25.9 1.58 16.3 46.5 13.2
    Details As a Man Thinketh Allen, James 1864 1912 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 7517
    (18)
    26.6 1.56 16.3 47.6 13.2
    Details Palmistry for All Cheiro 1866 1936 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 21000 41356
    (103)
    28.5 1.51 16.3 50.3 13.3
    Details The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 Wordsworth, William 1770 1850 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 21000 118027
    (295)
    29.5 1.48 15.9 52.0 13.3
    Details The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 3000 4000 8000 9000 10000 17000 59403
    (148)
    24.7 1.63 17.1 43.9 13.3
    Details Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Var Sanborn, Alvan Francis 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 114300
    (285)
    24.2 1.64 16.2 43.1 13.3
    Details The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 18000 114750
    (286)
    30.5 1.44 16.2 53.8 13.3
    Details The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners Ruskin, John 1819 1900 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 72573
    (181)
    29.6 1.47 16.0 52.7 13.3
    Details Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 51555
    (128)
    28.8 1.5 16.0 50.9 13.3
    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 The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Trusler, John 1735 1820 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 41272
    (103)
    26.5 1.58 16.4 46.4 13.4
    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 The Analysis of Mind Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 6000 8000 15000 88527
    (221)
    24.8 1.63 16.8 43.3 13.4
    Details The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography Butler, Samuel 1774 1839 3000 6000 10000 17000 19000 19000 1703
    (4)
    18.1 1.85 16.9 31.6 13.4
    Details The 2010 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 24000 1297237
    (3243)
    13.8 2.0 16.9 23.4 13.4
    Details The Problems of Philosophy Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 2000 3000 4000 6000 8000 15000 42186
    (105)
    27.3 1.56 16.8 47.2 13.5
    Details A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund Hall, G. Stanley 1856 (1846) 1939 (1924) 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 155848
    (389)
    24.6 1.65 16.9 42.3 13.5
    Details On the Trail of The Immigrant Steiner, Edward A. 1866 1856 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 87463
    (218)
    28.2 1.54 16.4 47.9 13.6
    Details From Gretna Green to Land's End A Literary Journey in England. Bates, Katharine Lee 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 21000 71781
    (179)
    28.9 1.52 15.8 49.2 13.6
    Details A Short History of H.M.S. Victory Wharton, William James Lloyd 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 15824
    (39)
    28.9 1.52 16.8 49.3 13.6
    Details Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud, Sigmund Eder, M. D. (Montague David) 1856 (1866) 1939 (1936) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53068
    (132)
    25.7 1.64 17.2 42.3 13.7
    Details Political Ideals Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 22188
    (55)
    25.4 1.64 16.9 42.1 13.7
    Details Phaedrus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 38099
    (95)
    30.0 1.5 16.9 49.6 13.8
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 152778
    (381)
    27.5 1.58 17.3 44.9 13.8
    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 De vita Caesarum Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius 75 160 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 228866
    (572)
    26.5 1.63 17.5 42.4 13.9
    Details Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti Henry, Henry A. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 40370
    (100)
    27.5 1.59 17.7 44.1 13.9

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