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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 Ramayana. English Valmiki Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) (1826) (1906) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 22000 394725
    (986)
    19.0 1.38 10.5 70.4 8.1
    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
    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 Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)
    16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    Details Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1769 1834 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 20000 484139
    (1210)
    22.4 1.6 15.6 48.9 12.0
    Details Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thomas, Aquinas, Saint 1225 1274 3000 4000 6000 11000 13000 20000 486564
    (1216)
    17.0 1.55 12.7 58.7 9.3
    Details The Book of Household Management Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 488058
    (1220)
    15.8 1.5 10.5 63.9 8.3
    Details Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Maupassant, Guy de 1850 1893 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 489213
    (1223)
    16.9 1.45 10.5 67.2 8.1
    Details Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875) (1936) 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 18000 491525
    (1228)
    16.4 1.38 9.5 73.6 7.1
    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 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 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 War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 560687
    (1401)
    17.9 1.49 11.9 62.4 9.0
    Details Les Misérables Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 562958
    (1407)
    15.6 1.5 10.9 64.1 8.2
    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 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 768172
    (1920)
    21.8 1.5 13.4 58.0 10.6
    Details The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 20000 790029
    (1975)
    26.6 1.35 13.2 66.1 10.6
    Details The Grammar of English Grammars Brown, Goold 1791 1857 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 875923
    (2189)
    10.3 1.55 9.6 65.3 6.7
    Details The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 4000 6000 10000 14000 19000 23000 897318
    (2243)
    9.5 1.4 6.8 79.1 4.6
    Details The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series Addison, Joseph 1672 1719 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 20000 929911
    (2324)
    26.0 1.51 15.2 52.3 12.4
    Details The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Casanova, Giacomo Machen, Arthur 1725 (1863) 1798 (1947) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 1251067
    (3127)
    20.8 1.46 12.2 62.4 9.7
    Details Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Pepys, Samuel Bright, Mynors 1633 (1818) 1703 (1883) 2000 3000 7000 11000 13000 22000 1253859
    (3134)
    30.4 1.36 14.6 61.3 12.3
    Details The 2010 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 24000 1297237
    (3243)
    13.8 2.0 16.9 23.4 13.4

    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.
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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.