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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 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 35903
    (89)
    29.4 1.66 19.0 36.4 15.5
    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 Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 10000 13000 17000 22000 168617
    (421)
    26.0 1.32 12.7 69.0 10.1
    Details An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 48155
    (120)
    31.1 1.71 20.6 30.5 16.7
    Details Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas Custer, Elizabeth B. 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 136367
    (340)
    27.0 1.49 15.2 53.3 12.5
    Details A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 96732
    (241)
    17.1 1.41 10.0 70.0 7.7
    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 Warlord of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56940
    (142)
    26.0 1.45 13.9 57.5 11.7
    Details Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska Gillis, Charles J. 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 10605
    (26)
    21.6 1.5 13.0 57.8 10.6
    Details The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 134240
    (335)
    16.4 1.44 10.1 67.9 7.9
    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 An English Grammar Sewell, James Witt 1865 1955 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 73343
    (183)
    9.9 1.56 9.7 64.8 6.7
    Details New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin Various 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 130202
    (325)
    23.1 1.58 15.0 49.8 12.0
    Details Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories; Second Series Nicholson, Meredith 1866 1947 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 117496
    (293)
    14.9 1.45 9.5 68.9 7.3
    Details Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas Becke, Louis 1855 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 66427
    (166)
    21.6 1.39 11.4 67.0 9.3
    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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 169040
    (422)
    16.7 1.66 13.4 49.8 10.5
    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 True Bear Stories Miller, Joaquin 1837 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 42215
    (105)
    21.2 1.4 11.4 66.9 9.2
    Details The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5

    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.