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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 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 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 Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married Armitage, R. B. 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 68583
    (171)    		 27.3 1.68 18.3 37.4 14.8
    Details The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Ormsby, John 1547 (1829) 1616 (1895) 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 215612
    (539)    		 48.7 1.41 23.1 37.8 20.1
    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 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 World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 91873
    (229)    		 27.8 1.66 18.4 38.2 14.9
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenome Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 133904
    (334)    		 23.8 1.71 17.1 38.2 13.8
    Details The Frontier in American History Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861 1932 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 112204
    (280)    		 24.6 1.7 17.3 38.2 14.0
    Details Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot Craig, Austin 1872 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 62400
    (156)    		 29.6 1.64 18.6 38.3 15.3
    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 A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while i Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 93796
    (234)    		 46.5 1.43 22.5 38.7 19.4
    Details The Economic Consequences of the Peace Keynes, John Maynard 1883 1946 3000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 67762
    (169)    		 26.4 1.67 17.9 38.9 14.4
    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 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 Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 120387
    (300)    		 49.5 1.38 22.5 39.8 20.0
    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 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 Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 Vogel, Robert M. 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 12934
    (32)    		 20.1 1.73 15.8 40.1 12.7
    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 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 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 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 Shepp's Photographs of the World Shepp, James W.Shepp, Daniel B. 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 26227
    (65)    		 25.1 1.67 16.9 40.3 13.9
    Details British Political Leaders Mc 1830 1912 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 63507
    (158)    		 29.9 1.61 18.3 40.3 15.1
    Details The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 20000 6977
    (17)    		 29.1 1.62 17.8 40.3 14.9
    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 Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)    		 29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9
    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 Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Mackey, Albert Gallatin 1807 1881 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 70062
    (175)    		 26.1 1.65 17.7 40.8 14.1
    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 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 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 Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad Fea, Allan 1860 1956 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 19000 33872
    (84)    		 31.2 1.58 17.8 41.2 15.3
    Details Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Welsh, Peter C. 3000 5000 9000 13000 14000 21000 11740
    (29)    		 15.1 1.77 14.4 41.3 11.3
    Details Moral Principles in Education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 10720
    (26)    		 22.1 1.69 16.1 41.4 13.0
    Details Artistic Anatomy of Animals Cuyer, Édouard 5000 9000 16000 20000 22000 25000 90251
    (225)    		 23.8 1.67 17.0 41.5 13.4
    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 The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) 1840 1914 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 206172
    (515)    		 29.9 1.59 18.0 41.9 14.8
    Details Political Ideals Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 22188
    (55)    		 25.4 1.64 16.9 42.1 13.7
    Details Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud, Sigmund Eder, M. D. (Montague David) 1856 (1866) 1939 (1936) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53068
    (132)    		 25.7 1.64 17.2 42.3 13.7
    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 A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund Hall, G. Stanley 1856 (1846) 1939 (1924) 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 155848
    (389)    		 24.6 1.65 16.9 42.3 13.5
    Details Handbook of the Trees of New England Dame, Lorin Low 1838 1903 5000 10000 17000 20000 23000 25000 50148
    (125)    		 12.4 1.8 12.0 42.3 10.4
    Details The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in Engels, Friedrich Kelley, Florence 1820 (1859) 1895 (1932) 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 114426
    (286)    		 27.4 1.62 17.1 42.3 14.2
    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 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 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 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 Various 5000 9000 15000 18000 20000 24000 53847
    (134)    		 4.6 1.89 10.4 42.6 8.5
    Details History of the United States Beard, Mary Ritter 1876 1958 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 199929
    (499)    		 18.8 1.71 15.4 42.7 12.0

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