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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 Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 10000 13000 17000 22000 168617
    (421)
    26.0 1.32 12.7 69.0 10.1
    Details Warlord of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56940
    (142)
    26.0 1.45 13.9 57.5 11.7
    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 The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec Aristotle 384BC 322BC 3000 6000 10000 15000 18000 23000 107312
    (268)
    26.1 1.45 14.5 57.5 11.7
    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 The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Mackey, Albert Gallatin 1807 1881 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 70062
    (175)
    26.1 1.65 17.7 40.8 14.1
    Details Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1265 (1807) 1321 (1882) 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23000 38252
    (95)
    26.1 1.4 13.6 62.1 11.1
    Details Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 9000 13000 17000 23000 187600
    (469)
    26.2 1.32 12.9 68.5 10.2
    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 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 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 Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 23520
    (58)
    26.4 1.69 18.2 37.1 14.6
    Details The Economic Consequences of the Peace Keynes, John Maynard 1883 1946 3000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 67762
    (169)
    26.4 1.67 17.9 38.9 14.4
    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 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 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 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 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 The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 20000 790029
    (1975)
    26.6 1.35 13.2 66.1 10.6
    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 Silas Marner Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 70159
    (175)
    26.6 1.43 13.8 58.8 11.7
    Details Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience Matthews, Ike 1857 1913 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 14490
    (36)
    26.6 1.37 13.1 63.8 11.0
    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 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Richardson, Samuel 1689 1761 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 221156
    (552)
    26.6 1.37 13.2 63.7 11.0
    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 The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Perrault, Charles 1628 1703 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 20000 28065
    (70)
    26.8 1.4 13.8 61.1 11.4
    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 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 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 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 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 Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married Armitage, R. B. 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 68583
    (171)
    27.3 1.68 18.3 37.4 14.8
    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 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 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 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 Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in Engels, Friedrich Kelley, Florence 1820 (1859) 1895 (1932) 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 114426
    (286)
    27.4 1.62 17.1 42.3 14.2
    Details History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) 1873 1930 3000 5000 7000 11000 15000 23000 113094
    (282)
    27.4 1.61 17.3 43.2 14.0
    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 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
    Details Psychology and Social Practice Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 8000 12000 7549
    (18)
    27.6 1.75 19.3 30.7 15.8
    Details Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt Baikie, James 1866 1931 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 26825
    (67)
    27.7 1.39 14.0 61.2 11.6
    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 World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 91873
    (229)
    27.8 1.66 18.4 38.2 14.9
    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 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 56587
    (141)
    28.1 1.66 18.7 38.1 14.9
    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 Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz Wyllie, David 1883 1924 1000 2000 4000 5000 7000 12000 21986
    (54)
    28.3 1.39 14.3 60.4 11.9
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 92171
    (230)
    28.4 1.6 17.7 43.0 14.3
    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

    Notes:

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    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.