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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 Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)    		 17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    Details The Big Trip Up Yonder Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 3000 5000 12000 16000 16000 16000 3562
    (8)    		 13.5 1.49 9.6 66.9 7.3
    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 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 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 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 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 Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Elliott, James, Sir 1880 1959 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 36438
    (91)    		 20.3 1.66 15.5 45.7 11.9
    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 Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Behn, Aphra 1640 1689 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 144849
    (362)    		 9.2 1.4 6.7 78.6 4.6
    Details French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie, de France, 12th cent. Mason, Eugene 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 73605
    (184)    		 19.2 1.33 10.0 74.8 7.6
    Details British Castles Ashdown, Charles H. 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 39601
    (99)    		 25.6 1.66 17.2 40.7 14.0
    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 Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 6000 9000 13000 16000 20000 1235
    (3)    		 18.4 1.46 10.1 65.0 8.8
    Details The Descent of Man Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 298564
    (746)    		 17.6 1.66 14.0 48.4 10.9
    Details English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a ne Kirkham, Samuel 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 22000 91181
    (227)    		 13.9 1.56 11.3 60.4 8.3
    Details Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 6000 10000 11000 16000 18000 40617
    (101)    		 25.5 1.84 20.0 25.3 16.1
    Details Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) 1870 4000 5000 10000 13000 16000 20000 99523
    (248)    		 12.9 1.65 12.0 54.1 8.9
    Details Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 188 Burroughs, Barkham 1952 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 147356
    (368)    		 19.3 1.51 12.1 59.8 9.7
    Details Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 169040
    (422)    		 16.7 1.66 13.4 49.8 10.5
    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 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 Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 5000 9000 12000 17000 21000 227889
    (569)    		 14.7 1.48 10.7 66.6 7.6
    Details The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio 3000 4000 8000 12000 17000 22000 97942
    (244)    		 20.5 1.5 13.2 58.7 10.2
    Details Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 1877 1962 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 20000 39112
    (97)    		 21.2 1.44 12.4 63.5 9.7
    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 Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 4000 7000 12000 17000 18000 69813
    (174)    		 15.0 1.42 10.0 71.2 7.0
    Details The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 201803
    (504)    		 19.5 1.56 13.2 54.7 10.5
    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 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 161987
    (404)    		 29.8 1.6 18.6 41.0 15.0
    Details Music Notation and Terminology Gehrkens, Karl Wilson 1882 1975 3000 5000 10000 15000 17000 23000 40795
    (101)    		 13.0 1.66 11.8 53.5 9.0
    Details Little Jeanne of France Brandeis, Madeline 1897 1937 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 17000 15537
    (38)    		 10.6 1.39 6.4 78.6 4.9
    Details Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 12000 17000 17000 319979
    (799)    		 15.6 1.46 10.0 67.8 7.7
    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 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 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 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 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 Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, S Kleiser, Grenville 1868 1953 6000 9000 12000 15000 17000 22000 81255
    (203)    		 230.2 1.83 101.1 -181.4 95.7
    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 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 Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 175708
    (439)    		 16.8 1.62 12.6 53.1 10.0
    Details The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)    		 19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    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 Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street Melville, Herman 1819 1891 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 19000 14288
    (35)    		 17.6 1.57 12.3 56.2 9.8
    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 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 Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Sterne, Laurence 1713 1768 2000 5000 9000 13000 17000 22000 179035
    (447)    		 43.2 1.45 21.0 40.2 18.4
    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

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