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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 De Profundis Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 17584
    (43)
    23.7 1.41 13.1 63.2 10.3
    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 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 The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details An Elementary Study of Insects Haseman, Leonard 1884 1969 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 23000 17942
    (44)
    17.6 1.45 10.7 66.5 8.4
    Details The Book of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo 1862 1913 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 17957
    (44)
    19.4 1.61 13.7 51.2 10.9
    Details Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o Milton, John 1608 1674 3000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 17989
    (44)
    44.3 1.51 22.9 34.0 19.5
    Details Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) 1859 1924 3000 4000 9000 12000 13000 19000 18024
    (45)
    13.6 1.42 9.1 72.7 6.5
    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 The Wendigo Blackwood, Algernon 1869 1951 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 18159
    (45)
    21.0 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.2
    Details Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Molière Jones, Philip Dwight 1622 1673 3000 5000 9000 10000 14000 16000 18257
    (45)
    11.3 1.49 8.4 69.7 6.3
    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 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 Poetics. English Aristotle Bywater, Ingram 384BC (1840) 322BC (1914) 3000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 18459
    (46)
    26.1 1.54 16.2 49.9 12.8
    Details What Men Live By and Other Tales Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 18752
    (46)
    15.5 1.32 8.1 79.2 6.1
    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 The Cid Corneille, Pierre Mongan, Roscoe 1606 1684 4000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 18903
    (47)
    12.1 1.46 8.8 70.7 6.4
    Details Anthem Rand, Ayn 1905 1982 1000 2000 4000 6000 7000 11000 19042
    (47)
    15.2 1.26 7.4 84.9 5.2
    Details The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 23000 19258
    (48)
    12.3 1.46 8.2 70.8 6.4
    Details Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 19419
    (48)
    29.7 1.55 17.5 45.4 14.3
    Details Email 101 Goodwin, John 3000 3000 5000 7000 11000 19000 19561
    (48)
    15.1 1.63 12.3 53.6 9.5
    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 Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples Brown, Frank Chouteau 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 22000 20014
    (50)
    10.1 1.75 11.9 48.1 9.1
    Details Discoverers and Explorers Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard) 1855 1903 2000 4000 6000 7000 9000 17000 20101
    (50)
    19.6 1.48 12.3 61.4 9.6
    Details McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book Mc 1800 1873 8000 11000 15000 19000 21000 24000 20113
    (50)
    11.6 1.47 6.8 70.5 6.3
    Details Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Rowlandson, Mary White 1635 1710 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 20128
    (50)
    25.9 1.35 12.9 66.1 10.5
    Details The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Craven, Wesley Frank 1905 1981 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 20141
    (50)
    29.4 1.67 19.4 36.0 15.5
    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 Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 9000 17000 20422
    (51)
    14.2 1.34 7.9 78.6 5.8
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    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 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 12000 16000 22000 24000 20740
    (51)
    10.7 1.44 7.4 74.4 5.5
    Details Daisy Miller James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 4000 8000 9000 11000 19000 21009
    (52)
    12.8 1.52 10.0 65.3 7.3
    Details Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772 1834 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 21413
    (53)
    20.3 1.31 9.8 75.3 7.8
    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 Great God Pan Machen, Arthur 1863 1947 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 21527
    (53)
    19.7 1.45 11.3 64.5 9.2
    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 Merlin A Poem Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869 1935 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 21993
    (54)
    29.6 1.35 14.5 62.2 11.9
    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 Meno Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 22147
    (55)
    19.6 1.5 12.8 59.8 9.8
    Details Political Ideals Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 22188
    (55)
    25.4 1.64 16.9 42.1 13.7
    Details Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Crane, Stephen 1871 1900 4000 6000 9000 10000 12000 18000 22287
    (55)
    11.7 1.47 8.3 70.5 6.3
    Details Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of Schlebecker, John T. 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 22455
    (56)
    7.1 1.71 9.7 54.7 7.4
    Details She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith, Oliver 1730 1774 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 22563
    (56)
    8.3 1.42 6.0 78.2 4.4
    Details Lady Susan Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 14000 22830
    (57)
    23.7 1.54 14.6 52.6 11.8
    Details Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth Descartes, René 1596 1650 3000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 23024
    (57)
    81.4 1.54 38.0 -5.7 34.3
    Details Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 23520
    (58)
    26.4 1.69 18.2 37.1 14.6
    Details Ghosts Ibsen, Henrik Archer, William 1828 (1856) 1906 (1924) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 23525
    (58)
    8.4 1.44 6.4 76.7 4.7
    Details Carmen Mérimée, Prosper Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) 1803 (1853) 1870 (1936) 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 20000 23528
    (58)
    15.7 1.43 9.4 69.8 7.4
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)
    18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6

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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.