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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 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 Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) 1905 2002 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 13000 35128
    (87)
    9.9 1.44 7.8 74.7 5.3
    Details David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)
    17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries Caesar, Julius McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) 100BC 44BC 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 158969
    (397)
    33.9 1.55 19.3 41.0 16.0
    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 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 De vita Caesarum Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius 75 160 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 228866
    (572)
    26.5 1.63 17.5 42.4 13.9
    Details Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Ho Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert) 1871 1930 2000 5000 8000 14000 19000 19000 36773
    (91)
    18.6 1.33 9.6 75.4 7.4
    Details Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 9000 12000 17000 37282
    (93)
    11.9 1.44 7.9 73.0 6.0
    Details Deathworld Harrison, Harry 1925 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 56945
    (142)
    11.4 1.42 7.5 75.0 5.6
    Details Defenders of Democracy Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 12711
    (31)
    5.7 1.71 9.4 56.4 6.8
    Details Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 134869
    (337)
    23.7 1.73 17.5 36.1 14.1
    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 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 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 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 35903
    (89)
    29.4 1.66 19.0 36.4 15.5
    Details Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Winslow, Anna Green 1759 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 27973
    (69)
    17.1 1.48 10.7 64.2 8.6
    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 Diary of an Enlisted Man Alstyne, Lawrence Van 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 120903
    (302)
    14.6 1.36 8.3 76.8 6.2
    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 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 Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1265 (1807) 1321 (1882) 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23000 38252
    (95)
    26.1 1.4 13.6 62.1 11.1
    Details Dodo Wonders Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867 1940 2000 4000 9000 15000 15000 16000 64785
    (161)
    16.2 1.45 10.0 68.1 7.8
    Details Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 24000 349083
    (872)
    19.4 1.45 11.5 64.1 9.1
    Details Don Juan Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788 1824 3000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 124309
    (310)
    37.0 1.39 17.6 52.1 15.2
    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 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 42069
    (105)
    16.3 1.4 9.8 71.5 7.3
    Details Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Montessori, Maria 1870 1952 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 17000 24376
    (60)
    22.4 1.54 14.6 53.4 11.4
    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 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 Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers Hughes, Talbot 1869 1942 4000 5000 10000 11000 14000 21000 30554
    (76)
    12.8 1.54 9.6 63.9 7.5
    Details Dubliners Joyce, James 1882 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 66695
    (166)
    14.3 1.43 9.0 71.7 6.8
    Details Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)
    21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    Details Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx, Karl 1818 1883 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 39830
    (99)
    30.8 1.72 20.5 29.7 16.8
    Details El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)
    19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary Col Campbell, Douglas Houghton 1859 1953 4000 7000 13000 18000 21000 24000 68439
    (171)
    10.5 1.63 10.1 58.4 7.7
    Details Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 Vogel, Robert M. 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 12934
    (32)
    20.1 1.73 15.8 40.1 12.7
    Details Email 101 Goodwin, John 3000 3000 5000 7000 11000 19000 19561
    (48)
    15.1 1.63 12.3 53.6 9.5
    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 Emma Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 155516
    (388)
    20.8 1.47 12.4 61.1 9.9
    Details Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 169040
    (422)
    16.7 1.66 13.4 49.8 10.5
    Details Encyclopedia of Needlework Dillmont, Thérèse de 1846 1890 4000 5000 10000 15000 22000 22000 126757
    (316)
    14.1 1.42 8.7 72.4 6.7
    Details English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a ne Kirkham, Samuel 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 22000 91181
    (227)
    13.9 1.56 11.3 60.4 8.3
    Details English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- Long, William J. (William Joseph) 1867 1952 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 204834
    (512)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.5 12.2
    Details Erewhon Butler, Samuel 1835 1902 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 83680
    (209)
    33.5 1.49 17.9 46.5 15.1
    Details Erotica Romana Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 4000 7000 11000 14000 17000 24000 6681
    (16)
    16.7 1.48 10.8 64.5 8.4
    Details Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 91306
    (228)
    21.0 1.53 13.6 55.9 10.7
    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 Essays — First Series Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 74343
    (185)
    20.7 1.49 13.0 60.1 10.0

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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.