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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 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 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 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 Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Exp Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 231338
    (578)
    23.3 1.65 16.3 43.5 13.0
    Details The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Popular Mechanics Company 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 231737
    (579)
    15.1 1.44 9.7 69.8 7.3
    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 The Idiot Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Martin, Eva M. 1821 1881 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 239039
    (597)
    14.9 1.47 10.4 67.1 7.6
    Details The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886 1959 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 240707
    (601)
    19.2 1.43 11.1 66.2 8.8
    Details Twenty Years After Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 22000 240798
    (601)
    13.6 1.46 9.9 69.5 7.0
    Details The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827 1915 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 241259
    (603)
    17.1 1.53 12.3 60.2 9.1
    Details The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 16000 241638
    (604)
    17.8 1.47 11.3 64.1 8.7
    Details Emile Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 14000 251868
    (629)
    25.8 1.44 14.1 58.8 11.5
    Details The Possessed (The Devils) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 252520
    (631)
    15.5 1.5 10.9 64.3 8.1
    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 Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 258577
    (646)
    15.5 1.42 9.6 70.9 7.2
    Details Demonology and Devil-lore Conway, Moncure Daniel 1832 1907 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 21000 259586
    (648)
    23.5 1.56 14.8 51.0 12.0
    Details Ulysses Joyce, James 1882 1941 4000 7000 11000 14000 18000 23000 260586
    (651)
    11.2 1.5 8.7 68.9 6.4
    Details My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition Anonymous 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 15000 263497
    (658)
    18.4 1.37 9.6 72.1 7.8
    Details Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Mackay, Charles 1814 1889 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 20000 273706
    (684)
    23.0 1.57 15.0 50.7 11.9
    Details The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 274389
    (685)
    30.2 1.57 17.9 43.2 14.7
    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 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822 1885 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 276868
    (692)
    20.5 1.55 13.9 54.7 10.7
    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 The Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 290649
    (726)
    17.4 1.51 11.3 61.7 9.0
    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 Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802 1875 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 294773
    (736)
    22.0 1.56 14.4 52.6 11.4
    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 Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811 1863 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 298755
    (746)
    22.3 1.48 13.0 59.0 10.6
    Details The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 303152
    (757)
    22.2 1.7 16.6 40.5 13.1
    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 Middlemarch Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 311801
    (779)
    20.7 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.1
    Details The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Yule, Henry, Sir (1820) (1889) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 313144
    (782)
    16.0 1.55 11.7 59.5 8.9
    Details The Forsyte Saga - Complete Galsworthy, John 1867 1933 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 313254
    (783)
    14.3 1.43 9.1 71.7 6.8
    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 Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 317769
    (794)
    19.4 1.49 12.3 61.1 9.6
    Details Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais, François Urquhart, Thomas, Sir 1483 (1611) 1553 (1660) 4000 7000 12000 16000 20000 24000 317921
    (794)
    21.5 1.49 13.0 58.9 10.4
    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 Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Prest, Thomas Preskett 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 327232
    (818)
    18.9 1.43 11.3 66.6 8.7
    Details Little Dorrit Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 332182
    (830)
    18.1 1.47 11.2 64.5 8.8
    Details Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 335852
    (839)
    20.4 1.57 13.6 53.1 10.9
    Details Bleak House Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 347904
    (869)
    16.7 1.45 10.3 67.2 8.0
    Details Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 348306
    (870)
    16.8 1.46 10.8 66.2 8.2
    Details History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Fielding, Henry 1707 1754 2000 4000 8000 10000 12000 18000 348464
    (871)
    30.5 1.5 16.9 48.8 14.0
    Details The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 348671
    (871)
    14.5 1.46 9.9 68.9 7.3
    Details Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 24000 349083
    (872)
    19.4 1.45 11.5 64.1 9.1
    Details David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)
    17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 370669
    (926)
    20.0 1.36 10.4 71.6 8.2
    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 All About Coffee Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) 1873 1945 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 387030
    (967)
    13.8 1.67 11.8 51.5 9.5
    Details Introduction to the Science of Sociology Park, Robert Ezra 1864 1944 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 388459
    (971)
    14.6 1.73 13.7 45.3 10.6

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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.