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 Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures | Hopkins, Mark | 1802 | 1887 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
15404 (38) |
32.4 | 1.55 | 18.6 | 43.2 | 15.3 | |
Details | The Antichrist | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) | 1844 (1880) | 1900 (1956) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
32360 (80) |
32.0 | 1.59 | 18.7 | 39.5 | 15.7 |
Details | Swann's Way | Proust, Marcel | Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) | 1871 (1889) | 1922 (1930) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
194407 (486) |
36.0 | 1.47 | 18.7 | 45.6 | 15.8 |
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 origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
153985 (384) |
29.6 | 1.67 | 18.8 | 35.7 | 15.6 | |
Details | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
Details | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas | 1588 | 1679 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 |
211956 (529) |
34.2 | 1.51 | 19.0 | 44.3 | 15.6 | |
Details | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
35903 (89) |
29.4 | 1.66 | 19.0 | 36.4 | 15.5 | |
Details | The Communist Manifesto | Engels, Friedrich | 1820 | 1895 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
11413 (28) |
24.1 | 1.81 | 19.1 | 29.5 | 15.1 | |
Details | Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103706 (259) |
36.5 | 1.51 | 19.2 | 42.3 | 16.4 | |
Details | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
154299 (385) |
30.7 | 1.67 | 19.2 | 34.8 | 16.0 | |
Details | Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete | Young, Filson | 1876 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
161166 (402) |
35.3 | 1.5 | 19.2 | 44.2 | 15.9 | |
Details | De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries | Caesar, Julius | McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) | 100BC | 44BC | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
158969 (397) |
33.9 | 1.55 | 19.3 | 41.0 | 16.0 |
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 | The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 | Craven, Wesley Frank | 1905 | 1981 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
20141 (50) |
29.4 | 1.67 | 19.4 | 36.0 | 15.5 | |
Details | The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General | Nuttall, P. Austin | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
758344 (1895) |
30.7 | 1.69 | 19.4 | 32.9 | 16.3 | |||
Details | The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Livy | Spillan, D. (Daniel) | (1854) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
231205 (578) |
32.4 | 1.58 | 19.4 | 40.1 | 15.7 | |
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 | Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
145128 (362) |
32.5 | 1.6 | 19.5 | 38.3 | 16.0 | |
Details | The Ladies Delight | Anonymous | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 |
4466 (11) |
42.1 | 1.35 | 19.5 | 50.1 | 16.7 | |||
Details | The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 | Herodotus | Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) | 480BC (1852) | 420BC (1915) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
159214 (398) |
38.2 | 1.44 | 19.5 | 45.9 | 16.4 |
Details | The Prince and the Pauper | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
69129 (172) |
40.3 | 1.43 | 19.6 | 44.9 | 17.0 | |
Details | Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
32078 (80) |
36.5 | 1.52 | 19.6 | 41.2 | 16.6 | |||
Details | Line and Form (1900) | Crane, Walter | 1845 | 1915 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
44073 (110) |
32.9 | 1.64 | 19.6 | 34.8 | 16.6 | |
Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
Details | Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Harvey, Alexander Miller | 1844 (1867) | 1900 (1928) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
36537 (91) |
32.2 | 1.65 | 19.7 | 34.9 | 16.4 |
Details | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
137615 (344) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.7 | 47.2 | 17.1 | |
Details | A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
225521 (563) |
31.6 | 1.65 | 19.8 | 35.3 | 16.2 | |
Details | The Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress | Santayana, George | 1863 | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
317310 (793) |
29.2 | 1.72 | 19.8 | 31.8 | 16.1 | |
Details | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
Details | Antiquities of the Jews | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
531622 (1329) |
37.5 | 1.46 | 19.8 | 44.8 | 16.3 |
Details | Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Zimmern, Helen | 1844 (1846) | 1900 (1934) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
61977 (154) |
32.8 | 1.65 | 19.9 | 33.7 | 16.7 |
Details | On War — Volume 1 | Clausewitz, Carl von | Graham, J. J., Colonel | 1780 | 1831 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
106755 (266) |
34.3 | 1.59 | 20.0 | 37.3 | 16.6 |
Details | The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
200546 (501) |
34.4 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 36.7 | 16.7 | |
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 | Democracy in America — Volume 2 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
140667 (351) |
33.1 | 1.64 | 20.1 | 34.3 | 16.7 |
Details | The Essays of Montaigne — Complete | Montaigne, Michel de | Cotton, Charles | 1533 (1630) | 1592 (1687) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
524667 (1311) |
38.4 | 1.52 | 20.3 | 39.6 | 17.3 |
Details | Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | Marx, Karl | 1818 | 1883 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39830 (99) |
30.8 | 1.72 | 20.5 | 29.7 | 16.8 | |
Details | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48155 (120) |
31.1 | 1.71 | 20.6 | 30.5 | 16.7 | |
Details | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò | Marriott, W. K. (William K.) | 1469 | 1527 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
49271 (123) |
38.0 | 1.54 | 20.8 | 38.2 | 17.4 |
Details | The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Alexander | 1757 | 1804 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
191873 (479) |
31.9 | 1.69 | 20.8 | 31.4 | 16.8 | |
Details | The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 | Herodotus | Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) | 480BC (1852) | 420BC (1915) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
145187 (362) |
39.5 | 1.5 | 20.9 | 40.1 | 17.5 |
Details | Democracy in America — Volume 1 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
188399 (470) |
33.7 | 1.67 | 21.0 | 31.4 | 17.3 |
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 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 | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
205539 (513) |
35.3 | 1.67 | 21.2 | 29.5 | 17.9 | |
Details | On Liberty | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
51737 (129) |
35.8 | 1.64 | 21.3 | 31.8 | 17.7 | |
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 | Don Quixote | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
425471 (1063) |
45.3 | 1.41 | 21.6 | 41.9 | 18.7 |
Details | A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
408771 (1021) |
35.2 | 1.66 | 21.6 | 30.6 | 17.7 |
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.