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 | The Canterville Ghost | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
11587 (28) |
26.1 | 1.49 | 14.9 | 54.5 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 2000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
11622 (29) |
15.8 | 1.29 | 7.4 | 81.3 | 5.8 | |
| 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 | Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 | Welsh, Peter C. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 14000 | 21000 |
11740 (29) |
15.1 | 1.77 | 14.4 | 41.3 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | Walking | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
12032 (30) |
24.9 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 56.1 | 11.6 | |
| Details | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Irving, Washington | 1783 | 1859 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
12209 (30) |
35.0 | 1.51 | 18.3 | 43.9 | 15.8 | |
| Details | Aesop's Fables | Aesop | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
12261 (30) |
19.3 | 1.3 | 9.7 | 77.1 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection | Casteel, D. B. | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 | 20000 |
12517 (31) |
21.6 | 1.57 | 13.5 | 52.3 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
| Details | Defenders of Democracy | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
12711 (31) |
5.7 | 1.71 | 9.4 | 56.4 | 6.8 | |||
| Details | How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | Bennett, Arnold | 1867 | 1931 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
12746 (31) |
17.8 | 1.51 | 11.7 | 61.0 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | The Game of Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
13040 (32) |
8.5 | 1.46 | 7.4 | 74.7 | 4.9 | |
| Details | Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' | Scott, Charles A. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
13160 (32) |
6.6 | 1.39 | 5.1 | 82.1 | 3.4 | |||
| Details | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
13203 (33) |
15.7 | 1.65 | 13.1 | 51.3 | 10.0 | |||
| Details | Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English | Stanton, Henry | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
13663 (34) |
20.6 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.6 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | A Course In Wood Turning | ?-Milton, Archie Seldon | 1887 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 11000 | 14000 |
13683 (34) |
16.0 | 1.43 | 9.9 | 69.3 | 7.6 | ||
| Details | The Gardener | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
13795 (34) |
14.2 | 1.28 | 7.1 | 83.9 | 5.1 | |
| 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 | Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 19000 |
14288 (35) |
17.6 | 1.57 | 12.3 | 56.2 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Lysistrata | Aristophanes | 446BC | 385BC | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
14327 (35) |
12.9 | 1.49 | 9.4 | 67.9 | 7.0 | |
| 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 | Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience | Matthews, Ike | 1857 | 1913 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
14490 (36) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.8 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan | Ashford, Daisy | 1881 | 1972 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
14509 (36) |
18.3 | 1.42 | 10.2 | 68.0 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Handbook of Embroidery | Higgin, L. | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
14622 (36) |
14.0 | 1.57 | 10.7 | 59.9 | 8.4 | |||
| Details | Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking | Unknown | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
14689 (36) |
10.4 | 1.49 | 7.6 | 70.3 | 6.0 | |||
| Details | Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman | Davis, Rebecca Harding | 1831 | 1910 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
14838 (37) |
13.6 | 1.38 | 7.8 | 76.2 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms | Stein, Gertrude | 1874 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
14968 (37) |
15.1 | 1.46 | 9.3 | 68.2 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book after | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 14000 | 21000 |
15023 (37) |
18.5 | 1.37 | 9.7 | 71.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Poetics. English | Aristotle | Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) | 384BC (1850) | 322BC (1910) | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 12000 | 14000 | 18000 |
15099 (37) |
23.4 | 1.59 | 16.0 | 48.9 | 12.2 |
| Details | Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 |
15145 (37) |
23.0 | 1.49 | 13.8 | 57.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Second Variety | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 |
15191 (37) |
6.3 | 1.41 | 5.1 | 81.4 | 3.5 | |
| Details | Clouds | Aristophanes | Hickie, William James | 446BC | 385BC | 3000 | 7000 | 18000 | 18000 | 20000 | 22000 |
15272 (38) |
8.9 | 1.42 | 7.0 | 78.1 | 4.6 |
| Details | Nature | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
15310 (38) |
19.0 | 1.52 | 12.8 | 58.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures | Hopkins, Mark | 1802 | 1887 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
15404 (38) |
32.4 | 1.55 | 18.6 | 43.2 | 15.3 | |
| 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 | A Little Book of Filipino Riddles | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 24000 |
15684 (39) |
8.6 | 1.64 | 8.8 | 59.3 | 7.1 | ||||
| Details | New Atlantis | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
15693 (39) |
33.2 | 1.42 | 17.1 | 52.8 | 14.2 | |
| Details | New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in | Cotter, John L.Hudson, J. Paul | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 23000 |
15759 (39) |
19.1 | 1.71 | 15.1 | 42.4 | 12.1 | |||
| Details | A Short History of H.M.S. Victory | Wharton, William James Lloyd | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
15824 (39) |
28.9 | 1.52 | 16.8 | 49.3 | 13.6 | |||
| Details | The Real Mother Goose | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 | 24000 |
15838 (39) |
18.5 | 1.32 | 8.4 | 76.6 | 7.2 | ||||
| Details | Apology | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
16049 (40) |
28.8 | 1.46 | 15.8 | 54.0 | 12.9 |
| Details | Omnilingual | Piper, H. Beam | 1904 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
16172 (40) |
14.5 | 1.52 | 10.4 | 63.4 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Uncle Vanya | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | 1860 | 1904 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
16391 (40) |
8.8 | 1.44 | 7.1 | 76.2 | 4.8 | |
| Details | The Secret Sharer | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
16439 (41) |
14.4 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 6.9 | |
| Details | Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War | Saussure, Mrs. N. B. de | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
16693 (41) |
22.3 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 59.5 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise | Maginnis, Charles Donagh | 1867 | 1955 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
16817 (42) |
14.9 | 1.61 | 12.1 | 55.5 | 9.2 | |
| Details | Life Is a Dream | Calderón de la Barca, Pedro | FitzGerald, Edward | 1600 (1809) | 1681 (1883) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 19000 |
17220 (43) |
16.5 | 1.38 | 9.4 | 73.3 | 7.1 |
| Details | Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct | Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) | 1863 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
17268 (43) |
17.7 | 1.56 | 12.6 | 56.6 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Art of Modern Lace Making | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
17344 (43) |
16.0 | 1.55 | 11.2 | 59.5 | 8.9 | ||||
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.