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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 An Ideal Husband Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 1000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 28974
    (72)
    7.5 1.47 6.3 75.2 4.6
    Details The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 1873 1939 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74336
    (185)
    19.0 1.45 11.3 65.2 8.9
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 124102
    (310)
    22.4 1.45 13.2 61.6 10.2
    Details The Diva's Ruby Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 115276
    (288)
    18.3 1.42 10.9 67.9 8.3
    Details The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 768172
    (1920)
    21.8 1.5 13.4 58.0 10.6
    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 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 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 Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 258577
    (646)
    15.5 1.42 9.6 70.9 7.2
    Details Mark Twain's Speeches Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 92337
    (230)
    19.2 1.47 11.6 63.2 9.2
    Details Pygmalion Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 33146
    (82)
    10.4 1.48 8.2 71.5 5.9
    Details The Blue Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 138225
    (345)
    24.9 1.35 12.4 67.7 10.0
    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 The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 11304
    (28)
    14.1 1.46 9.7 68.8 7.2
    Details Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Bellamy, Edward 1850 1898 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 77522
    (193)
    24.0 1.55 15.1 51.1 12.1
    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 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 British Political Leaders Mc 1830 1912 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 63507
    (158)
    29.9 1.61 18.3 40.3 15.1
    Details The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account o Keller, Helen 1880 1968 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 133525
    (333)
    19.7 1.46 11.5 63.2 9.3
    Details Little Philippe of Belgium Brandeis, Madeline 1897 1937 2000 3000 5000 6000 7000 11000 17734
    (44)
    9.9 1.39 6.5 79.0 4.7
    Details Psychology and Social Practice Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 8000 12000 7549
    (18)
    27.6 1.75 19.3 30.7 15.8
    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 The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 16000 241638
    (604)
    17.8 1.47 11.3 64.1 8.7
    Details The Yellow Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 111039
    (277)
    21.0 1.33 10.6 73.2 8.3
    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 Beast in the Jungle James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 18288
    (45)
    20.3 1.39 11.6 68.4 8.8
    Details The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 994
    (2)
    16.3 1.54 11.0 60.2 8.9
    Details Mr. Spaceship Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 4000 6000 7000 11000 10529
    (26)
    7.7 1.44 6.3 77.2 4.4
    Details A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 96732
    (241)
    17.1 1.41 10.0 70.0 7.7
    Details The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 134240
    (335)
    16.4 1.44 10.1 67.9 7.9
    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 The Best American Humorous Short Stories 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 21000 101352
    (253)
    17.6 1.5 11.4 62.4 8.9
    Details Life on the Mississippi Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 142729
    (356)
    20.7 1.47 12.0 61.4 9.8
    Details Walden Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 114891
    (287)
    27.9 1.46 15.0 55.4 12.5
    Details The Art of War Sunzi Giles, Lionel (1875) (1958) 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 22000 52452
    (131)
    18.1 1.52 12.6 59.5 9.5
    Details Bleak House Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 347904
    (869)
    16.7 1.45 10.3 67.2 8.0
    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 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 The Sign of the Four Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 42939
    (107)
    14.7 1.42 9.0 71.6 6.9
    Details How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five H Benedict, Ralph Paine 2000 4000 7000 12000 12000 21000 59865
    (149)
    19.9 1.57 13.6 54.1 10.7
    Details The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 187931
    (469)
    24.6 1.47 14.0 57.4 11.4
    Details Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud, Sigmund Eder, M. D. (Montague David) 1856 (1866) 1939 (1936) 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 53068
    (132)
    25.7 1.64 17.2 42.3 13.7
    Details War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 560687
    (1401)
    17.9 1.49 11.9 62.4 9.0
    Details Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 180196
    (450)
    17.2 1.42 10.1 69.0 7.9
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 21000 205539
    (513)
    35.3 1.67 21.2 29.5 17.9
    Details Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married Armitage, R. B. 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 68583
    (171)
    27.3 1.68 18.3 37.4 14.8
    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 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 The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 128461
    (321)
    28.9 1.35 14.4 63.1 11.6
    Details A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 43598
    (108)
    15.8 1.46 10.2 67.2 7.8

    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.