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 | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 23000 |
19258 (48) |
12.3 | 1.46 | 8.2 | 70.8 | 6.4 | |
| 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 | The Waste Land | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 22000 |
4490 (11) |
12.0 | 1.51 | 8.9 | 66.6 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Leaves of Grass | Whitman, Walt | 1819 | 1892 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
120543 (301) |
33.2 | 1.46 | 16.8 | 49.9 | 14.6 | |
| Details | The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated | Dante Alighieri | Cary, Henry Francis | 1265 (1772) | 1321 (1844) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
108262 (270) |
24.5 | 1.34 | 12.1 | 68.4 | 9.8 |
| 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 | The Devil's Dictionary | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
58601 (146) |
13.9 | 1.62 | 11.9 | 55.3 | 9.0 | |
| Details | Oedipus Trilogy | Sophocles | Storr, Francis | 495BC (1839) | 406BC (1919) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 24000 |
37158 (92) |
14.7 | 1.38 | 8.9 | 75.1 | 6.4 |
| 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 | Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) | -Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse) | 1876 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 | 20000 |
27844 (69) |
15.4 | 1.53 | 10.8 | 61.4 | 8.5 | ||
| Details | Paradise Lost | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 4000 | 7000 | 13000 | 18000 | 18000 | 23000 |
79709 (199) |
49.9 | 1.37 | 22.9 | 40.2 | 20.1 | |
| Details | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Taylor, Bayard | 1749 (1825) | 1832 (1878) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
36297 (90) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.6 | 71.3 | 6.6 |
| Details | An Essay on Man | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
46424 (116) |
19.3 | 1.37 | 10.5 | 71.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Moby Dick, or, the whale | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
211314 (528) |
21.5 | 1.49 | 12.6 | 59.4 | 10.3 | |
| Details | Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem | Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) | (1856) | (1928) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 25000 |
37282 (93) |
19.9 | 1.55 | 11.9 | 55.4 | 10.5 | |
| Details | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Irving, Washington | 1783 | 1859 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
12209 (30) |
35.0 | 1.51 | 18.3 | 43.9 | 15.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Din | Ziemann, Hugo | 1828 | 1926 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
219613 (549) |
15.7 | 1.43 | 9.1 | 69.6 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Seven Plays in English Verse | Sophocles | Campbell, Lewis | 495BC (1830) | 406BC (1908) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 23000 |
91256 (228) |
9.5 | 1.36 | 6.6 | 82.2 | 4.2 |
| 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 | Everyman, with other interludes, including eight miracle plays | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 19000 | 24000 |
54310 (135) |
11.2 | 1.35 | 7.0 | 81.1 | 4.7 | ||||
| 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 | Paradise Lost | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80144 (200) |
43.3 | 1.42 | 21.0 | 42.9 | 18.0 | |
| Details | Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The fiddle and the bow, The paradise of fools, Visions | Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love) | 1850 | 1912 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
29397 (73) |
21.5 | 1.46 | 12.3 | 61.5 | 10.0 | |
| Details | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 | 24000 |
20740 (51) |
10.7 | 1.44 | 7.4 | 74.4 | 5.5 | |
| Details | The Handbook of Soap Manufacture | Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert)Appleton, H. A. | 4000 | 9000 | 15000 | 17000 | 19000 | 24000 |
53752 (134) |
9.8 | 1.76 | 12.2 | 48.1 | 9.0 | |||
| Details | The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection | Casteel, D. B. | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 | 20000 |
12517 (31) |
21.6 | 1.57 | 13.5 | 52.3 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | On the Nature of Things | Lucretius Carus, Titus | Leonard, William Ellery | 94BC (1876) | 49BC (1944) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 23000 |
73647 (184) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.5 | 47.2 | 17.1 |
| Details | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
22287 (55) |
11.7 | 1.47 | 8.3 | 70.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I | Spenser, Edmund | 1552 | 1599 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 | 24000 |
70160 (175) |
17.3 | 1.43 | 10.4 | 68.1 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | A Little Book of Filipino Riddles | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 24000 |
15684 (39) |
8.6 | 1.64 | 8.8 | 59.3 | 7.1 | ||||
| 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 | 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 Real Mother Goose | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 | 24000 |
15838 (39) |
18.5 | 1.32 | 8.4 | 76.6 | 7.2 | ||||
| Details | Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
65413 (163) |
18.0 | 1.35 | 9.2 | 74.4 | 7.3 | ||||
| Details | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyám | FitzGerald, Edward | 1048 (1809) | 1122 (1883) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
11527 (28) |
18.2 | 1.46 | 11.1 | 64.5 | 8.8 |
| Details | The Robbers | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
49365 (123) |
9.5 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 76.3 | 5.0 | |
| Details | In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius | 1469 | 1536 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
44403 (111) |
48.2 | 1.52 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 21.1 | |
| Details | Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete | Dickinson, Emily | 1830 | 1886 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30572 (76) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.9 | 71.7 | 6.6 | |
| Details | Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary Col | Campbell, Douglas Houghton | 1859 | 1953 | 4000 | 7000 | 13000 | 18000 | 21000 | 24000 |
68439 (171) |
10.5 | 1.63 | 10.1 | 58.4 | 7.7 | |
| 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 | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) | 480 (1862) | 525 (1931) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
42189 (105) |
19.5 | 1.47 | 12.3 | 62.6 | 9.4 |
| Details | Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor | Hands, A. F. Morris | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 19000 | 22000 |
5892 (14) |
16.3 | 1.56 | 11.6 | 58.6 | 9.1 | |||
| Details | Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers | Hughes, Talbot | 1869 | 1942 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
30554 (76) |
12.8 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 63.9 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Erotica Romana | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | 1749 | 1832 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 24000 |
6681 (16) |
16.7 | 1.48 | 10.8 | 64.5 | 8.4 | |
| 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 People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi | Pierce, Ray Vaughn | 1840 | 1914 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 21000 |
381700 (954) |
16.9 | 1.71 | 14.4 | 45.3 | 11.1 | |
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.