This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 | Phèdre. English | Racine, Jean | Boswell, Robert Bruce | 1639 | 1699 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 |
13981 (34) |
14.1 | 1.4 | 8.5 | 74.3 | 6.4 |
| Details | The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 | Perrault, Charles | Welsh, Charles | 1628 (1850) | 1703 (1914) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
18345 (45) |
23.2 | 1.36 | 11.8 | 67.9 | 9.6 |
| Details | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | Second Treatise of Government | Locke, John | 1632 | 1704 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
56126 (140) |
33.0 | 1.51 | 18.6 | 45.7 | 15.1 | |
| Details | An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Editi | Locke, John | 1632 | 1704 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
149042 (372) |
31.5 | 1.51 | 17.7 | 46.9 | 14.5 | |
| Details | Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | Rowlandson, Mary White | 1635 | 1710 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 |
20128 (50) |
25.9 | 1.35 | 12.9 | 66.1 | 10.5 | |
| Details | Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi | Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von | Huggard, E. M. | 1646 | 1716 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 20000 |
184166 (460) |
24.4 | 1.56 | 15.6 | 50.1 | 12.3 |
| 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 Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic | Newton, Isaac, Sir | 1642 | 1727 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 17000 | 18000 |
69813 (174) |
15.0 | 1.42 | 10.0 | 71.2 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours | Newton, Isaac, Sir | 1642 | 1727 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
96556 (241) |
32.8 | 1.5 | 18.0 | 46.6 | 14.9 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
137615 (344) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.7 | 47.2 | 17.1 | |
| Details | An Essay on Man | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
46424 (116) |
19.3 | 1.37 | 10.5 | 71.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
54188 (135) |
19.7 | 1.47 | 12.1 | 62.2 | 9.5 | |
| 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 | Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103706 (259) |
36.5 | 1.51 | 19.2 | 42.3 | 16.4 | |
| 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 | Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
51555 (128) |
28.8 | 1.5 | 16.0 | 50.9 | 13.3 | |
| Details | History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Fielding, Henry | 1707 | 1754 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
348464 (871) |
30.5 | 1.5 | 16.9 | 48.8 | 14.0 | |
| Details | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Richardson, Samuel | 1689 | 1761 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
221156 (552) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.2 | 63.7 | 11.0 | |
| 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 | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1730 | 1774 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
22563 (56) |
8.3 | 1.42 | 6.0 | 78.2 | 4.4 | |
| Details | A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
225521 (563) |
31.6 | 1.65 | 19.8 | 35.3 | 16.2 | |
| Details | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
56587 (141) |
28.1 | 1.66 | 18.7 | 38.1 | 14.9 | |
| 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 | 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 | Candide | Voltaire | 1694 | 1778 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 21000 |
35400 (88) |
18.0 | 1.5 | 11.7 | 61.4 | 9.2 | |
| Details | The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
274389 (685) |
30.2 | 1.57 | 17.9 | 43.2 | 14.7 | |
| Details | Emile | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
251868 (629) |
25.8 | 1.44 | 14.1 | 58.8 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World | Cook, James | 1728 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
220361 (550) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.3 | 62.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
| 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 | Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The | Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' | Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) | 1723 (1771) | 1789 (1797) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
39094 (97) |
21.4 | 1.64 | 15.8 | 46.2 | 12.1 |
| Details | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Franklin, Benjamin | 1706 | 1790 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
65762 (164) |
32.0 | 1.54 | 18.0 | 44.5 | 15.0 | |
| Details | Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Franklin, Benjamin | 1706 | 1790 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
73971 (184) |
27.2 | 1.54 | 16.1 | 49.0 | 13.2 | |
| Details | 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue | Grose, Francis | 1731 | 1791 | 5000 | 8000 | 13000 | 15000 | 19000 | 24000 |
80819 (202) |
7.1 | 1.53 | 6.6 | 70.3 | 5.2 | |
| Details | The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
10194 (25) |
7.3 | 1.75 | 11.5 | 51.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
256688 (641) |
18.6 | 1.72 | 15.8 | 42.3 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The | Equiano, Olaudah | 1745 | 1797 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
81664 (204) |
29.1 | 1.46 | 15.7 | 53.5 | 13.0 | |
| 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 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 | The Critique of Pure Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) | 1724 (1830) | 1804 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 |
206467 (516) |
35.8 | 1.72 | 22.9 | 24.9 | 18.7 |
| 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 | The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Alexander | 1757 | 1804 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
191873 (479) |
31.9 | 1.69 | 20.8 | 31.4 | 16.8 | |
Notes:
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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.