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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 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 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 Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)
    21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4
    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 Book of Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1805 1844 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 17000 275021
    (687)
    35.8 1.39 17.5 53.1 14.7
    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 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 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Boccaccio, Giovanni Payne, John 1313 (1842) 1375 (1916) 3000 6000 12000 15000 18000 22000 306465
    (766)
    44.1 1.44 21.5 40.2 18.6
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 6000 10000 13000 18000 25000 123549
    (308)
    20.1 1.5 12.7 59.9 9.9
    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 Nonsense Books Lear, Edward 1812 1888 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 19000 28733
    (71)
    18.8 1.47 11.3 63.2 9.1
    Details The Golden Asse Apuleius, Lucius 125 180 3000 6000 10000 15000 17000 23000 80574
    (201)
    51.6 1.43 24.2 33.7 21.4
    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 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
    Details A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Cutter, Calvin 1807 1872 4000 6000 11000 15000 19000 24000 134981
    (337)
    10.9 1.62 10.9 58.6 7.8
    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 The Aeneid English Virgil Dryden, John 70BC (1631) 19BC (1700) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 23000 106024
    (265)
    24.5 1.34 11.8 68.2 9.8
    Details The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788 1824 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 23000 121886
    (304)
    20.6 1.42 11.7 66.2 9.1
    Details Beeton's Book of Needlework Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 14000 15000 17000 20000 81453
    (203)
    13.6 1.47 8.8 68.7 7.0
    Details The Book of Household Management Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 488058
    (1220)
    15.8 1.5 10.5 63.9 8.3
    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 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 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 Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews United States. Work Projects Administration 2000 6000 9000 15000 20000 22000 126940
    (317)
    17.2 1.35 8.8 75.6 7.0
    Details The Shunned House Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890 1937 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 18000 10663
    (26)
    30.4 1.6 17.9 40.3 15.2
    Details Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 22000 99800
    (249)
    31.1 1.49 16.7 48.9 14.2
    Details Hamlet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 22000 28983
    (72)
    8.3 1.43 6.8 77.6 4.5
    Details Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of Schlebecker, John T. 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 22455
    (56)
    7.1 1.71 9.7 54.7 7.4
    Details Ramayana. English Valmiki Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) (1826) (1906) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 22000 394725
    (986)
    19.0 1.38 10.5 70.4 8.1
    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 Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script Talmage, James Edward 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 18000 294595
    (736)
    23.6 1.55 15.2 51.9 11.9
    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 Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit Harris, Joel Chandler 1848 1908 2000 6000 9000 14000 17000 22000 6823
    (17)
    22.2 1.24 10.0 79.0 7.8
    Details The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) 1842 1930 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 18000 6761
    (16)
    12.9 1.39 7.6 75.9 5.9
    Details The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Petrarca, Francesco 1304 1374 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 189869
    (474)
    22.6 1.43 12.7 63.0 10.1
    Details The Piazza Tales Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 78731
    (196)
    23.0 1.55 14.2 52.4 11.7
    Details The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Saemund Sigfusson Blackwell, I. A. 1179 1241 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 23000 84459
    (211)
    11.7 1.42 7.6 75.2 5.7
    Details Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Dir Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) 1871 1954 4000 6000 9000 14000 17000 21000 10808
    (27)
    16.3 1.46 10.1 67.1 7.9
    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 Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)
    16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    Details Theory of the Leisure Class Veblen, Thorstein 1857 1929 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 19000 105017
    (262)
    33.7 1.76 21.7 24.1 18.3
    Details Cyrano De Bergerac Rostand, Edmond Thomas, Gladys 1868 1918 3000 6000 10000 14000 17000 23000 34576
    (86)
    9.7 1.45 7.4 74.4 5.3
    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 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 11354
    (28)
    22.8 1.57 14.4 51.0 11.8
    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 Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 58756
    (146)
    19.8 1.5 12.5 59.8 9.8
    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 Arabian nights. English Anonymous Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 4000 6000 11000 14000 18000 22000 172497
    (431)
    25.8 1.41 13.4 61.6 11.1

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