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 | John Deere's Steel Plow | Kendall, Edward C. | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
5509 (13) |
17.7 | 1.53 | 12.1 | 59.4 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | Hedda Gabler | Ibsen, Henrik | Gosse, Edmund | 1828 (1849) | 1906 (1928) | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
28907 (72) |
6.6 | 1.42 | 5.2 | 80.1 | 3.7 |
| Details | A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while i | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 |
93796 (234) |
46.5 | 1.43 | 22.5 | 38.7 | 19.4 | |
| Details | Essays in Experimental Logic | Dewey, John | 1859 | 1952 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
107047 (267) |
25.9 | 1.71 | 18.1 | 36.3 | 14.6 | |
| 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 | Utilitarianism | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
27456 (68) |
39.0 | 1.64 | 22.5 | 28.2 | 19.0 | |
| Details | A Child's History of England | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
161921 (404) |
29.2 | 1.44 | 15.5 | 55.5 | 12.8 | |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 | Flappers and Philosophers | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
59737 (149) |
13.4 | 1.48 | 9.2 | 67.8 | 7.1 | |
| Details | Notes from the Underground | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
43766 (109) |
18.1 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.5 | 8.9 | |
| 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 | 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 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 | Lulu's Library, Volume I (of 3) | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
50272 (125) |
19.9 | 1.33 | 9.5 | 74.4 | 7.8 | |
| Details | As a Man Thinketh | Allen, James | 1864 | 1912 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
7517 (18) |
26.6 | 1.56 | 16.3 | 47.6 | 13.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska | Gillis, Charles J. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
10605 (26) |
21.6 | 1.5 | 13.0 | 57.8 | 10.6 | |||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | |
| Details | Pride and Prejudice | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
119679 (299) |
19.8 | 1.52 | 13.0 | 58.1 | 10.1 | |
| Details | Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
185220 (463) |
19.5 | 1.41 | 10.8 | 68.0 | 8.6 | |
| Details | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
103757 (259) |
14.9 | 1.43 | 9.3 | 70.8 | 7.1 | |
| Details | The War of the Worlds | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
59603 (149) |
18.2 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 62.4 | 9.1 | |
| Details | A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
225521 (563) |
31.6 | 1.65 | 19.8 | 35.3 | 16.2 | |
| Details | Dracula | Stoker, Bram | 1847 | 1912 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
159139 (397) |
18.2 | 1.36 | 9.8 | 73.3 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
21504 (53) |
31.1 | 1.55 | 18.1 | 44.2 | 14.8 | |
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
215540 (538) |
24.7 | 1.49 | 14.7 | 56.0 | 11.6 |
| Details | Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards | Edwards, Jonathan | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
70313 (175) |
25.6 | 1.49 | 15.3 | 55.1 | 11.9 | |||
| Details | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Grimm, Jacob | 1785 | 1863 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
100994 (252) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.4 | 76.2 | 8.2 | |
| 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 | A Child's Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
8785 (21) |
23.1 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 68.7 | 9.4 | |
| Details | Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
64184 (160) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.8 | 54.0 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Sea-Gull | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | 1860 | 1904 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 16000 |
18866 (47) |
9.7 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 75.7 | 5.1 | |
| Details | Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) | 1851 | 1935 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
165374 (413) |
21.2 | 1.53 | 13.7 | 56.2 | 10.7 | |
| Details | The Secret Agent a Simple Tale | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
88831 (222) |
14.6 | 1.54 | 11.0 | 61.4 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
370669 (926) |
20.0 | 1.36 | 10.4 | 71.6 | 8.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
115618 (289) |
16.4 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 64.4 | 8.4 | |
| Details | On Liberty | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
51737 (129) |
35.8 | 1.64 | 21.3 | 31.8 | 17.7 | |
| Details | Return of Tarzan | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
88607 (221) |
18.0 | 1.44 | 10.8 | 66.3 | 8.5 | |
| Details | How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents a | Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor | 1873 | 1935 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
134858 (337) |
19.9 | 1.58 | 13.6 | 52.7 | 10.9 | |
| Details | American Fairy Tales | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
31719 (79) |
16.3 | 1.41 | 9.7 | 70.6 | 7.5 | |
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.