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 | 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 |
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.