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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 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce, Ambrose 1842 1914 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 16000 3713
    (9)    		 18.8 1.47 11.5 63.0 9.1
    Details The Wendigo Blackwood, Algernon 1869 1951 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 18159
    (45)    		 21.0 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.2
    Details Shakspere & Typography Blades, William 1824 1890 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 19000 6763
    (16)    		 19.3 1.59 13.4 53.1 10.6
    Details Songs of Innocence and Experience Blake, William 1757 1827 4000 5000 8000 10000 12000 15000 5549
    (13)    		 18.8 1.31 8.8 77.1 7.2
    Details How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents a Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor 1873 1935 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 134858
    (337)    		 19.9 1.58 13.6 52.7 10.9
    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 The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) 480 (1862) 525 (1931) 4000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 42189
    (105)    		 19.5 1.47 12.3 62.6 9.4
    Details Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G Boswell, James 1740 1795 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 214740
    (536)    		 20.2 1.52 12.9 57.9 10.2
    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 The Story of Our Submarines Bower, John Graham 1886 1940 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 17000 52976
    (132)    		 19.2 1.5 12.1 60.0 9.7
    Details Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Boy Scouts of America 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 122326
    (305)    		 15.9 1.49 10.6 64.8 8.2
    Details Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Bradford, William 1590 1657 2000 4000 8000 11000 16000 23000 169207
    (423)    		 21.2 1.45 12.2 62.4 9.8
    Details Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)    		 21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    Details The Art of Politicks Bramston, James 1694 1744 4000 8000 12000 17000 20000 24000 10432
    (26)    		 16.9 1.68 13.6 47.7 10.8
    Details Little Jeanne of France Brandeis, Madeline 1897 1937 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 17000 15537
    (38)    		 10.6 1.39 6.4 78.6 4.9
    Details Little Philippe of Belgium Brandeis, Madeline 1897 1937 2000 3000 5000 6000 7000 11000 17734
    (44)    		 9.9 1.39 6.5 79.0 4.7
    Details The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne 1820 1849 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 166923
    (417)    		 23.0 1.47 13.2 59.0 10.8
    Details Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 183151
    (457)    		 18.5 1.46 11.2 64.3 8.9
    Details Villette Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 20000 189437
    (473)    		 18.2 1.5 11.4 61.8 9.2
    Details Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily 1818 1848 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 114539
    (286)    		 16.9 1.46 10.6 65.8 8.3
    Details The Story of the Three Little Pigs Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 2000 2000 5000 7000 7000 9000 1052
    (2)    		 16.2 1.3 8.3 80.4 6.1
    Details The Golden Goose Book Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 1000 3000 6000 9000 14000 14000 5262
    (13)    		 21.4 1.29 10.3 76.2 7.9
    Details Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples Brown, Frank Chouteau 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 22000 20014
    (50)    		 10.1 1.75 11.9 48.1 9.1
    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 Queen Victoria Browne, E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) 1871 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 33632
    (84)    		 23.2 1.54 14.3 53.4 11.6
    Details The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) 1843 1913 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 200768
    (501)    		 22.5 1.58 14.8 50.5 11.8
    Details The Pied Piper of Hamelin Browning, Robert 1812 1889 4000 7000 11000 15000 16000 20000 2145
    (5)    		 23.3 1.38 11.3 66.5 9.8
    Details Adventurings in the Psychical Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) 1874 1959 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 56849
    (142)    		 21.3 1.6 14.5 49.8 11.6
    Details Greenmantle Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 98151
    (245)    		 14.7 1.4 8.6 73.2 6.7
    Details The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40737
    (101)    		 15.5 1.41 8.9 71.6 7.1
    Details Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. I of II) Bucke, Charles 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 144564
    (361)    		 24.0 1.58 15.7 48.5 12.5
    Details The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir 1857 1934 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 98023
    (245)    		 23.6 1.44 13.3 61.2 10.6
    Details Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Bulfinch, Thomas 1796 1867 3000 6000 9000 13000 17000 24000 145570
    (363)    		 21.7 1.48 13.2 59.5 10.4
    Details The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under Bunyan, John 1628 1688 2000 4000 8000 11000 14000 20000 56792
    (141)    		 19.1 1.33 10.0 75.3 7.5
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 161987
    (404)    		 29.8 1.6 18.6 41.0 15.0
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 152778
    (381)    		 27.5 1.58 17.3 44.9 13.8
    Details The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 79615
    (199)    		 13.2 1.35 7.4 79.0 5.5
    Details A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first ti Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 15000 65747
    (164)    		 13.9 1.4 8.5 74.1 6.4
    Details The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 79765
    (199)    		 13.2 1.35 7.4 78.9 5.5
    Details Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 9000 17000 20422
    (51)    		 14.2 1.34 7.9 78.6 5.8
    Details The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)    		 17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    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 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 Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)    		 28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details Return of Tarzan Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88607
    (221)    		 18.0 1.44 10.8 66.3 8.5
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 82534
    (206)    		 20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 82500
    (206)    		 20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 84994
    (212)    		 19.6 1.45 11.4 64.4 9.1
    Details The Chessmen of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 10000 16000 87139
    (217)    		 17.6 1.44 10.7 67.4 8.2
    Details The Land That Time Forgot Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 22000 36905
    (92)    		 20.0 1.44 11.3 64.7 9.2

    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.