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 | 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 | 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 | Beowulf | Gummere, Francis Barton | (1855) | (1919) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 | 24000 |
25594 (63) |
23.1 | 1.37 | 11.2 | 67.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Philippine Folk Tales | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
48249 (120) |
21.8 | 1.37 | 11.5 | 68.7 | 9.1 | ||||
| Details | Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 12000 |
1073 (2) |
20.2 | 1.37 | 10.7 | 70.8 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Little Men | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
104244 (260) |
21.5 | 1.37 | 11.1 | 69.0 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | A Book of Myths | Lang, Jeanie | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 | 24000 |
90896 (227) |
24.5 | 1.37 | 12.5 | 65.7 | 10.2 | |||
| 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 Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened | Digby, Kenelm | 1603 | 1665 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 | 23000 |
92490 (231) |
27.3 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.1 | 11.2 | |
| Details | L'avare. English | Molière | Wall, Charles Heron | 1622 | 1673 | 2000 | 3000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
22064 (55) |
8.8 | 1.37 | 6.2 | 82.1 | 4.0 |
| 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 | Eve's Diary, Complete | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
6746 (16) |
19.9 | 1.37 | 10.4 | 70.6 | 8.4 | |
| 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 | The Yellow Wallpaper | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | 1860 | 1935 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
6023 (15) |
15.4 | 1.38 | 8.3 | 74.2 | 6.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet | Anonymous | 4000 | 4000 | 9000 | 14000 | 15000 | 17000 |
20223 (50) |
16.2 | 1.38 | 8.7 | 73.6 | 7.0 | |||
| Details | Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
31960 (79) |
25.1 | 1.38 | 12.6 | 64.2 | 10.5 | |||
| 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 | Sons and Lovers | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) | 1885 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
158692 (396) |
9.8 | 1.38 | 6.4 | 80.6 | 4.4 | |
| 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 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 | 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 | Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side | Pickthall, Marmaduke William | (1875) | (1936) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
491525 (1228) |
16.4 | 1.38 | 9.5 | 73.6 | 7.1 | |
| Details | Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary De | -Buckelew, Sarah F. (Sarah Frances) | 1835 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
24947 (62) |
12.8 | 1.38 | 7.9 | 76.9 | 5.7 | ||
| Details | Ramayana. English | Valmiki | Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) | (1826) | (1906) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
394725 (986) |
19.0 | 1.38 | 10.5 | 70.4 | 8.1 |
| Details | Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
28603 (71) |
17.3 | 1.38 | 9.0 | 72.8 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 | Cole, E. W. (Edward William) | 1832 | 1918 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
141555 (353) |
20.6 | 1.38 | 10.6 | 68.8 | 8.8 | |
| 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 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) | 1859 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
66360 (165) |
19.8 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.4 | 8.5 | |
| 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 | Metamorphosis | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
21986 (54) |
28.3 | 1.39 | 14.3 | 60.4 | 11.9 |
| Details | The Call of the Wild | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 23000 |
31797 (79) |
18.7 | 1.39 | 10.4 | 69.9 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton | 1878 | 1968 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
147652 (369) |
22.3 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.4 | 9.5 | |
| Details | Don Juan | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
124309 (310) |
37.0 | 1.39 | 17.6 | 52.1 | 15.2 | |
| Details | The Sex Life of the Gods | Knerr, Michael | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
32090 (80) |
11.2 | 1.39 | 7.0 | 78.3 | 5.1 | |||
| Details | Heidi (Gift Edition) | Spyri, Johanna | Stork, Elisabeth P. (Elisabeth Pausinger) | 1827 | 1901 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 |
51302 (128) |
13.6 | 1.39 | 8.4 | 75.4 | 6.1 |
| Details | Riders of the Purple Sage | Grey, Zane | 1872 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 15000 | 24000 | 24000 |
102465 (256) |
12.4 | 1.39 | 7.8 | 76.5 | 5.7 | |
| Details | The Garden Party and Other Stories | Mansfield, Katherine | 1888 | 1923 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
56598 (141) |
10.5 | 1.39 | 6.6 | 78.9 | 4.9 | |
| 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 | On the Nature of Things | Lucretius Carus, Titus | Leonard, William Ellery | 94BC (1876) | 49BC (1944) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 23000 |
73647 (184) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.5 | 47.2 | 17.1 |
| 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 Skull | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 14000 | 14000 | 14000 |
7747 (19) |
7.0 | 1.39 | 5.4 | 81.9 | 3.6 | |
| Details | The Hunting of the Snark | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 15000 | 18000 |
4969 (12) |
22.4 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Ethan Frome | Wharton, Edith | 1862 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 14000 |
34572 (86) |
19.4 | 1.39 | 10.3 | 69.7 | 8.4 | |
| Details | The Mysterious Stranger | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
41011 (102) |
19.2 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.8 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Book of Mormon | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1805 | 1844 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
275021 (687) |
35.8 | 1.39 | 17.5 | 53.1 | 14.7 | |
| Details | Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt | Baikie, James | 1866 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
26825 (67) |
27.7 | 1.39 | 14.0 | 61.2 | 11.6 | |
| Details | Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite | Molière | Page, Curtis Hidden | 1622 (1870) | 1673 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 18000 |
18064 (45) |
15.4 | 1.39 | 8.7 | 73.3 | 6.9 |
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.