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 | Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No | Sophocles | Murray, Gilbert | 495BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 | 23000 |
17732 (44) |
9.6 | 1.35 | 6.9 | 82.5 | 4.1 |
| 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 | Medea of Euripides | Euripides | Murray, Gilbert | 480BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
19773 (49) |
12.0 | 1.36 | 7.3 | 79.8 | 5.1 |
| 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 | Don Quixote | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
425471 (1063) |
45.3 | 1.41 | 21.6 | 41.9 | 18.7 |
| Details | The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
215612 (539) |
48.7 | 1.41 | 23.1 | 37.8 | 20.1 |
| 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 |
| Details | A Young Girl's Diary | Anonymous | Paul, Eden | (1865) | (1944) | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 13000 | 15000 |
87209 (218) |
15.5 | 1.39 | 8.9 | 73.6 | 6.9 |
| 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 | 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 | The Iliad | Homer | Pope, Alexander | 750BC (1688) | 650BC (1744) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
188352 (470) |
23.1 | 1.42 | 12.7 | 63.4 | 10.2 |
| Details | The Confessions of St. Augustine | Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo | Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) | 354 (1800) | 430 (1882) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
111847 (279) |
30.4 | 1.41 | 15.7 | 57.0 | 12.9 |
| Details | Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden | (1828) | (1889) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
127694 (319) |
14.6 | 1.42 | 9.1 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| Details | Democracy in America — Volume 1 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
188399 (470) |
33.7 | 1.67 | 21.0 | 31.4 | 17.3 |
| Details | Democracy in America — Volume 2 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
140667 (351) |
33.1 | 1.64 | 20.1 | 34.3 | 16.7 |
| Details | The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes | Terence | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | (1816) | (1878) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 | 23000 |
125987 (314) |
9.6 | 1.43 | 7.7 | 76.1 | 5.0 |
| Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
137832 (344) |
21.9 | 1.49 | 13.5 | 58.2 | 10.6 |
| Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 25000 |
123549 (308) |
20.1 | 1.5 | 12.7 | 59.9 | 9.9 |
| Details | Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works | Kalidasa | Ryder, Arthur W. (Arthur William) | (1877) | (1938) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
61590 (153) |
14.2 | 1.49 | 9.7 | 66.8 | 7.5 |
| Details | Concerning the Spiritual in Art | Kandinsky, Wassily | Sadleir, Michael | 1866 (1888) | 1944 (1957) | 3000 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
26025 (65) |
20.0 | 1.64 | 14.5 | 47.8 | 11.6 |
| Details | Venus in Furs | Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von | Savage, Fernanda | 1836 | 1895 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
41668 (104) |
14.3 | 1.49 | 9.5 | 66.6 | 7.5 |
| Details | Swann's Way | Proust, Marcel | Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) | 1871 (1889) | 1922 (1930) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
194407 (486) |
36.0 | 1.47 | 18.7 | 45.6 | 15.8 |
| Details | An Enemy of the People | Ibsen, Henrik | Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) | 1828 (1864) | 1906 (1945) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
30158 (75) |
8.8 | 1.45 | 6.7 | 75.2 | 5.0 |
| Details | The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Livy | Spillan, D. (Daniel) | (1854) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
231205 (578) |
32.4 | 1.58 | 19.4 | 40.1 | 15.7 | |
| Details | Plutarch's Lives, Volume I | Plutarch | Stewart, Aubrey | 46 (1844) | 120 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184023 (460) |
32.8 | 1.53 | 18.6 | 44.0 | 15.3 |
| 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 | 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 | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Taylor, Bayard | 1749 (1825) | 1832 (1878) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
36297 (90) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.6 | 71.3 | 6.6 |
| Details | The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of | Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte | Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) | 1873 (1873) | 1897 (1963) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
104435 (261) |
20.1 | 1.43 | 11.4 | 65.5 | 9.1 |
| Details | Cyrano De Bergerac | Rostand, Edmond | Thomas, Gladys | 1868 | 1918 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
34576 (86) |
9.7 | 1.45 | 7.4 | 74.4 | 5.3 |
| Details | Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend | Aesop | Townsend, George Fyler | 620BC (1814) | 563BC (1900) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
40748 (101) |
22.2 | 1.43 | 12.6 | 63.5 | 9.9 |
| Details | The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Tucker, Benjamin R. | 1828 | 1910 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
63962 (159) |
17.1 | 1.47 | 11.0 | 65.1 | 8.4 |
| Details | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Rabelais, François | Urquhart, Thomas, Sir | 1483 (1611) | 1553 (1660) | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 | 24000 |
317921 (794) |
21.5 | 1.49 | 13.0 | 58.9 | 10.4 |
| Details | De re coquinaria. English | Apicius | Vehling, Joseph Dommers | (1879) | (1950) | 5000 | 8000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 | 24000 |
94575 (236) |
12.5 | 1.65 | 11.5 | 54.3 | 8.8 |
| Details | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | Aesop | Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
41387 (103) |
25.3 | 1.33 | 12.4 | 68.4 | 10.0 |
| Details | Theresa Raquin | Zola, Émile | Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred | 1840 (1853) | 1902 (1922) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
70860 (177) |
17.4 | 1.49 | 11.4 | 62.8 | 8.8 |
| 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 | 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 | Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | West, Julius | 1860 (1891) | 1904 (1918) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
66807 (167) |
9.8 | 1.46 | 7.6 | 73.3 | 5.5 |
| Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
| Details | Antiquities of the Jews | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
531622 (1329) |
37.5 | 1.46 | 19.8 | 44.8 | 16.3 |
| Details | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims | La Rochefoucauld, François duc de | Willis Bund, J. W. (John William) | 1613 (1843) | 1680 (1928) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
34123 (85) |
16.4 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 61.2 | 8.8 |
| 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 Trial | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
82679 (206) |
17.6 | 1.4 | 10.4 | 70.4 | 7.8 |
| Details | The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 | Yule, Henry, Sir | (1820) | (1889) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
313144 (782) |
16.0 | 1.55 | 11.7 | 59.5 | 8.9 | |
| Details | Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Zimmern, Helen | 1844 (1846) | 1900 (1934) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
61977 (154) |
32.8 | 1.65 | 19.9 | 33.7 | 16.7 |
| Details | Oliver Twist | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 17000 |
156033 (390) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 66.5 | 8.2 | |
| Details | Demonology and Devil-lore | Conway, Moncure Daniel | 1832 | 1907 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
259586 (648) |
23.5 | 1.56 | 14.8 | 51.0 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | The Best American Humorous Short Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
101352 (253) |
17.6 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 62.4 | 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.