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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 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 Persuasion Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 82646
    (206)
    22.7 1.49 13.7 57.7 10.9
    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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 20000 110968
    (277)
    42.0 1.3 18.2 54.1 16.2
    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 2 B R 0 2 B Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 2000 3000 7000 9000 10000 14000 2501
    (6)
    9.4 1.46 7.5 74.1 5.3
    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 Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 120387
    (300)
    49.5 1.38 22.5 39.8 20.0
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 93549
    (233)
    22.4 1.57 14.4 51.3 11.7
    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 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James 1882 1941 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 84537
    (211)
    15.8 1.41 9.3 71.2 7.2
    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 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 My Man Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 5000 8000 12000 19000 50312
    (125)
    10.8 1.4 7.0 77.1 5.2
    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 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 4000 6000 10000 14000 19000 23000 897318
    (2243)
    9.5 1.4 6.8 79.1 4.6
    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 Ulysses Joyce, James 1882 1941 4000 7000 11000 14000 18000 23000 260586
    (651)
    11.2 1.5 8.7 68.9 6.4
    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 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 23000 25924
    (64)
    8.0 1.32 5.1 86.7 3.2
    Details The Mysterious Affair at Styles Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 2000 3000 6000 9000 12000 17000 55542
    (138)
    10.2 1.49 8.5 70.3 6.0
    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 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 Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 117920
    (294)
    24.3 1.51 14.9 54.1 11.8
    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 Mansfield Park Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 157622
    (394)
    22.6 1.48 13.3 59.1 10.6
    Details The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 79615
    (199)
    13.2 1.35 7.4 79.0 5.5
    Details Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 147161
    (367)
    18.3 1.45 11.1 65.7 8.6
    Details A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 134550
    (336)
    17.3 1.44 10.5 67.2 8.2
    Details A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 116398
    (290)
    20.0 1.42 11.2 66.5 9.0
    Details A Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)
    28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 39505
    (98)
    17.4 1.33 9.3 76.3 6.9
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 28431
    (71)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.4 6.5
    Details Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 101388
    (253)
    14.7 1.43 9.3 71.1 7.0
    Details The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25369
    (63)
    21.3 1.44 12.1 63.3 9.7
    Details Through the Looking-Glass Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 7000 11000 15000 24000 28873
    (72)
    14.1 1.36 7.7 77.5 6.0
    Details Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 62632
    (156)
    17.0 1.53 11.9 60.3 9.1
    Details The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 19000 82835
    (207)
    23.3 1.53 14.2 54.0 11.5
    Details The Practice and Science of Drawing Speed, Harold 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 75941
    (189)
    26.6 1.55 16.1 48.9 13.1
    Details The Waste Land Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 4000 6000 11000 14000 17000 22000 4490
    (11)
    12.0 1.51 8.9 66.6 7.0
    Details Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, Cleland, John 1709 1789 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 84355
    (210)
    57.8 1.49 27.7 22.4 24.5
    Details Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 1819 1892 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 22000 120543
    (301)
    33.2 1.46 16.8 49.9 14.6
    Details The Communist Manifesto Engels, Friedrich 1820 1895 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 15000 11413
    (28)
    24.1 1.81 19.1 29.5 15.1
    Details The Call of the Wild London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 23000 31797
    (79)
    18.7 1.39 10.4 69.9 8.1
    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 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

    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.