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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 The Cask of Amontillado Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 11000 17000 19000 19000 2302
    (5)
    10.0 1.51 8.4 68.9 6.1
    Details What Men Live By and Other Tales Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 18752
    (46)
    15.5 1.32 8.1 79.2 6.1
    Details The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 8000 9000 16000 10626
    (26)
    11.6 1.46 8.5 71.9 6.1
    Details Kim Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 3000 5000 10000 15000 16000 22000 103135
    (257)
    12.6 1.42 7.8 73.9 6.1
    Details The Prisoner of Zenda Hope, Anthony 1863 1933 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53278
    (133)
    13.7 1.38 8.1 75.9 6.1
    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 Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanator Aeschylus Murray, Gilbert 525BC (1866) 456BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 20586
    (51)
    13.1 1.4 8.4 75.1 6.1
    Details The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Younges Various 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 8003
    (20)
    13.2 1.4 7.9 74.8 6.1
    Details A Damsel in Distress Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 76064
    (190)
    11.6 1.46 8.3 71.8 6.1
    Details Diary of an Enlisted Man Alstyne, Lawrence Van 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 120903
    (302)
    14.6 1.36 8.3 76.8 6.2
    Details Anne of the Island Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 75570
    (188)
    12.7 1.43 8.3 73.0 6.2
    Details The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 57012
    (142)
    13.3 1.41 8.6 74.3 6.2
    Details The Eyes Have It Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 8000 9000 12000 1120
    (2)
    9.8 1.53 8.5 67.8 6.2
    Details Peter Pan Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 47245
    (118)
    14.8 1.36 8.3 76.5 6.3
    Details The Jungle Book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 50599
    (126)
    15.9 1.33 8.1 78.1 6.3
    Details Very Short Stories and Verses For Children Clifford, W. K., Mrs. 1929 1000 2000 6000 8000 11000 16000 14400
    (36)
    16.8 1.3 7.9 79.9 6.3
    Details Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Crane, Stephen 1871 1900 4000 6000 9000 10000 12000 18000 22287
    (55)
    11.7 1.47 8.3 70.5 6.3
    Details The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 27122
    (67)
    15.7 1.33 8.5 78.2 6.3
    Details The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 7617
    (19)
    12.1 1.45 8.5 71.6 6.3
    Details Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) (1823) (1900) 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 16000 11680
    (29)
    12.8 1.43 8.7 73.0 6.3
    Details Anne's House of Dreams Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 78051
    (195)
    13.7 1.4 8.2 74.6 6.3
    Details His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 6059
    (15)
    12.9 1.43 8.1 73.2 6.3
    Details Peter and Wendy Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 47114
    (117)
    14.8 1.36 8.4 76.5 6.3
    Details Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Molière Jones, Philip Dwight 1622 1673 3000 5000 9000 10000 14000 16000 18257
    (45)
    11.3 1.49 8.4 69.7 6.3
    Details McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book Mc 1800 1873 8000 11000 15000 19000 21000 24000 20113
    (50)
    11.6 1.47 6.8 70.5 6.3
    Details A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 29348
    (73)
    12.3 1.45 8.4 71.7 6.3
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 54516
    (136)
    12.9 1.43 8.6 72.6 6.3
    Details Ulysses Joyce, James 1882 1941 4000 7000 11000 14000 18000 23000 260586
    (651)
    11.2 1.5 8.7 68.9 6.4
    Details The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 23000 19258
    (48)
    12.3 1.46 8.2 70.8 6.4
    Details Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles Storr, Francis 495BC (1839) 406BC (1919) 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 24000 37158
    (92)
    14.7 1.38 8.9 75.1 6.4
    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 Adventures of Sally Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 76500
    (191)
    12.1 1.46 8.5 70.8 6.4
    Details The Amateur Cracksman Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William) 1866 1921 2000 4000 8000 9000 12000 16000 51615
    (129)
    13.7 1.41 8.4 73.7 6.4
    Details The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics Laozi Legge, James (1815) (1897) 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 10365
    (25)
    13.8 1.41 9.4 73.7 6.4
    Details The Burglars' Club A Romance in Twelve Chronicles Hering, Henry A. 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 22000 51301
    (128)
    11.1 1.49 8.8 69.2 6.4
    Details The Cid Corneille, Pierre Mongan, Roscoe 1606 1684 4000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 18903
    (47)
    12.1 1.46 8.8 70.7 6.4
    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 Who Goes There! Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 19000 72754
    (181)
    12.0 1.47 8.7 70.2 6.4
    Details Volpone; Or, the Fox Jonson, Ben 1573 1637 4000 7000 12000 16000 20000 24000 48543
    (121)
    11.3 1.5 8.8 68.9 6.4
    Details Tales of Folk and Fairies Pyle, Katharine 1863 1938 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 54127
    (135)
    17.5 1.29 8.6 79.7 6.5
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 28431
    (71)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.4 6.5
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 8575
    (21)
    17.3 1.3 8.5 79.1 6.5
    Details An Imperial Marriage Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 21000 94091
    (235)
    14.1 1.4 8.7 73.9 6.5
    Details The Princess and the Goblin Mac 1824 1905 1000 3000 5000 8000 9000 15000 50659
    (126)
    15.8 1.35 8.6 76.9 6.5
    Details The Velveteen Rabbit Bianco, Margery Williams 1880 1944 1000 4000 7000 8000 11000 13000 3965
    (9)
    16.2 1.33 8.3 77.5 6.5
    Details Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 1000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 9601
    (24)
    15.3 1.37 8.2 75.3 6.5
    Details Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) 1859 1924 3000 4000 9000 12000 13000 19000 18024
    (45)
    13.6 1.42 9.1 72.7 6.5
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 29106
    (72)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details The Invisible Man Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 47694
    (119)
    12.5 1.47 8.6 70.2 6.6

    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.