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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 Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885 1930 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 158692
    (396)
    9.8 1.38 6.4 80.6 4.4
    Details The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Colum, Padraic 1881 1972 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 65423
    (163)
    15.9 1.3 7.8 80.6 6.0
    Details The Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)
    7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    Details Plays Glaspell, Susan 1882 1948 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 13000 52567
    (131)
    10.5 1.36 6.7 80.9 4.6
    Details Everyman, with other interludes, including eight miracle plays 4000 6000 10000 15000 19000 24000 54310
    (135)
    11.2 1.35 7.0 81.1 4.7
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 6000 9000 12000 19000 11622
    (29)
    15.8 1.29 7.4 81.3 5.8
    Details Second Variety Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 11000 15191
    (37)
    6.3 1.41 5.1 81.4 3.5
    Details Beyond Lies the Wub Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 2682
    (6)
    6.6 1.4 5.5 81.6 3.5
    Details The Skull Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 14000 14000 14000 7747
    (19)
    7.0 1.39 5.4 81.9 3.6
    Details Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Scott, Charles A. 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 13160
    (32)
    6.6 1.39 5.1 82.1 3.4
    Details L'avare. English Molière Wall, Charles Heron 1622 1673 2000 3000 8000 12000 15000 22000 22064
    (55)
    8.8 1.37 6.2 82.1 4.0
    Details The Seven Plays in English Verse Sophocles Campbell, Lewis 495BC (1830) 406BC (1908) 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 23000 91256
    (228)
    9.5 1.36 6.6 82.2 4.2
    Details Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No Sophocles Murray, Gilbert 495BC (1866) 406BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 23000 17732
    (44)
    9.6 1.35 6.9 82.5 4.1
    Details The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772 1834 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 3850
    (9)
    15.8 1.28 7.4 82.7 5.7
    Details A Doll's House : a play Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 15000 26051
    (65)
    7.9 1.37 5.2 82.9 3.6
    Details The Gardener Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 10000 16000 13795
    (34)
    14.2 1.28 7.1 83.9 5.1
    Details Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809 1894 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 2343
    (5)
    14.7 1.27 6.8 84.1 5.2
    Details The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, Unknown 2000 4000 6000 11000 12000 15000 33352
    (83)
    8.1 1.35 5.5 84.2 3.5
    Details Beyond the Door Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 8000 9000 2451
    (6)
    8.4 1.35 5.4 84.3 3.6
    Details Anthem Rand, Ayn 1905 1982 1000 2000 4000 6000 7000 11000 19042
    (47)
    15.2 1.26 7.4 84.9 5.2
    Details A Doll's House Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 15000 24007
    (60)
    7.2 1.34 5.0 85.8 3.1
    Details Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 23000 25924
    (64)
    8.0 1.32 5.1 86.7 3.2
    Details McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition Mc 1800 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 7379
    (18)
    10.1 1.27 5.3 89.4 3.3

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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.