This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
Conventional Readability Formula |
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| 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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
110968 (277) |
42.0 | 1.3 | 18.2 | 54.1 | 16.2 | |
| Details | The Ladies Delight | Anonymous | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 |
4466 (11) |
42.1 | 1.35 | 19.5 | 50.1 | 16.7 | |||
| 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 | Paradise Lost | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80144 (200) |
43.3 | 1.42 | 21.0 | 42.9 | 18.0 | |
| 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 | Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
17989 (44) |
44.3 | 1.51 | 22.9 | 34.0 | 19.5 | |
| 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 | 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 | In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius | 1469 | 1536 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
44403 (111) |
48.2 | 1.52 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 21.1 | |
| 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 | Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying | Hooke, Robert | 1635 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
147089 (367) |
48.8 | 1.46 | 23.6 | 33.9 | 20.7 | |
| 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 | 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 Critique of Practical Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill | 1724 (1829) | 1804 (1913) | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
62637 (156) |
50.4 | 1.64 | 27.2 | 16.6 | 23.4 |
| Details | A Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 | 18000 |
3406 (8) |
50.8 | 1.53 | 25.1 | 25.5 | 22.3 | |
| Details | The Golden Asse | Apuleius, Lucius | 125 | 180 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80574 (201) |
51.6 | 1.43 | 24.2 | 33.7 | 21.4 | |
| Details | A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE | Casas, Bartolomé de las | 1474 | 1566 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
30124 (75) |
53.7 | 1.51 | 26.5 | 24.5 | 23.2 | |
| Details | Utopia | More, Thomas, Sir, Saint | 1478 | 1535 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
43401 (108) |
55.4 | 1.43 | 26.2 | 29.7 | 22.9 | |
| Details | Politics: A Treatise on Government | Aristotle | Ellis, William | 384BC | 322BC | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
101343 (253) |
55.7 | 1.54 | 27.9 | 20.4 | 24.2 |
| Details | The Princess of Cleves | La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) | 1634 | 1693 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
61526 (153) |
56.6 | 1.45 | 26.7 | 27.1 | 23.5 | |
| Details | Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, | Cleland, John | 1709 | 1789 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84355 (210) |
57.8 | 1.49 | 27.7 | 22.4 | 24.5 | |
| Details | Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth | Descartes, René | 1596 | 1650 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
23024 (57) |
81.4 | 1.54 | 38.0 | -5.7 | 34.3 | |
| 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 | |
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.