Gutenberg Readability Search - Readability Catalog of Project Gutenberg eBooks

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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 Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) 1830 1903 4000 6000 8000 13000 14000 20000 54623
    (136)
    17.7 1.66 14.0 48.1 11.0
    Details The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton, Robert 1577 1640 4000 8000 14000 17000 20000 24000 513147
    (1282)
    11.3 1.67 11.6 54.3 8.5
    Details The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 86027
    (215)
    18.6 1.35 9.6 74.0 7.6
    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 The Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 110924
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    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 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 A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and P Dewey, Melvil 1851 1931 5000 8000 12000 15000 18000 23000 11325
    (28)
    9.2 2.13 16.5 17.7 13.1
    Details Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    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 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 Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Unknown 5000 7000 9000 12000 16000 21000 14689
    (36)
    10.4 1.49 7.6 70.3 6.0
    Details De re coquinaria. English Apicius Vehling, Joseph Dommers (1879) (1950) 5000 8000 13000 16000 20000 24000 94575
    (236)
    12.5 1.65 11.5 54.3 8.8
    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 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Grose, Francis 1731 1791 5000 8000 13000 15000 19000 24000 80819
    (202)
    7.1 1.53 6.6 70.3 5.2
    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 Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Burns, Robert 1759 1796 6000 9000 17000 22000 24000 25000 125988
    (314)
    17.1 1.38 8.6 73.1 7.3
    Details Latin for Beginners D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) 1860 1940 7000 13000 20000 22000 23000 24000 91186
    (227)
    8.2 1.74 10.8 51.2 8.1
    Details A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 -Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 1912 7000 13000 14000 19000 22000 25000 99841
    (249)
    2.9 1.57 5.4 70.8 4.1
    Details The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book 7000 16000 20000 22000 24000 25000 42736
    (106)
    7.5 1.68 9.8 56.9 7.2
    Details New Latin Grammar Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) 1858 1921 7000 12000 20000 22000 23000 25000 63965
    (159)
    5.5 1.84 11.5 45.7 8.3
    Details McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book Mc 1800 1873 8000 11000 15000 19000 21000 24000 20113
    (50)
    11.6 1.47 6.8 70.5 6.3
    Details Roget's Thesaurus Roget, Peter Mark 1779 1869 10000 14000 19000 21000 23000 25000 180410
    (451)
    9.1 1.94 13.6 33.6 10.8

    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.