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 | The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 | Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) | 1842 | 1930 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 18000 |
6761 (16) |
12.9 | 1.39 | 7.6 | 75.9 | 5.9 | |
| Details | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 24000 |
54516 (136) |
12.9 | 1.43 | 8.6 | 72.6 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture | George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) | 1870 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
99523 (248) |
12.9 | 1.65 | 12.0 | 54.1 | 8.9 | ||
| Details | The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution | Azuela, Mariano | Munguía, E. (Enrique) | 1873 (1903) | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
37140 (92) |
12.9 | 1.48 | 9.4 | 68.2 | 7.0 |
| Details | Music Notation and Terminology | Gehrkens, Karl Wilson | 1882 | 1975 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
40795 (101) |
13.0 | 1.66 | 11.8 | 53.5 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | In the Year 2889 | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 |
5492 (13) |
13.1 | 1.57 | 11.0 | 60.7 | 8.0 | |
| 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 | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Taylor, Bayard | 1749 (1825) | 1832 (1878) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
36297 (90) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.6 | 71.3 | 6.6 |
| Details | Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete | Dickinson, Emily | 1830 | 1886 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30572 (76) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.9 | 71.7 | 6.6 | |
| Details | The Pillar of Light | Tracy, Louis | 1863 | 1928 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
79534 (198) |
13.2 | 1.47 | 9.1 | 69.4 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Younges | Various | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
8003 (20) |
13.2 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 74.8 | 6.1 | |||
| Details | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
79765 (199) |
13.2 | 1.35 | 7.4 | 78.9 | 5.5 | |
| Details | The Valley of Fear | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
57012 (142) |
13.3 | 1.41 | 8.6 | 74.3 | 6.2 | |
| Details | The Morning Glory Club | Kyle, George A. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
47254 (118) |
13.3 | 1.47 | 9.2 | 68.8 | 7.0 | |||
| Details | Tales of the Jazz Age | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
85222 (213) |
13.4 | 1.49 | 9.3 | 67.4 | 7.2 | |
| 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 | Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier | Dreyfus, Suelette | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
151211 (378) |
13.5 | 1.58 | 10.6 | 59.2 | 8.4 | |||
| Details | The Big Trip Up Yonder | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1922 | 2007 | 3000 | 5000 | 12000 | 16000 | 16000 | 16000 |
3562 (8) |
13.5 | 1.49 | 9.6 | 66.9 | 7.3 | |
| Details | What Is Man? and Other Essays | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
92556 (231) |
13.5 | 1.5 | 9.8 | 66.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Heidi (Gift Edition) | Spyri, Johanna | Stork, Elisabeth P. (Elisabeth Pausinger) | 1827 | 1901 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 |
51302 (128) |
13.6 | 1.39 | 8.4 | 75.4 | 6.1 |
| Details | Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman | Davis, Rebecca Harding | 1831 | 1910 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
14838 (37) |
13.6 | 1.38 | 7.8 | 76.2 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Twenty Years After | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
240798 (601) |
13.6 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 69.5 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Beeton's Book of Needlework | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 14000 | 15000 | 17000 | 20000 |
81453 (203) |
13.6 | 1.47 | 8.8 | 68.7 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Beginner's American History | Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry) | 1837 | 1928 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 |
67333 (168) |
13.6 | 1.47 | 9.6 | 68.8 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Crome Yellow | Huxley, Aldous | 1894 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
56364 (140) |
13.6 | 1.53 | 10.2 | 63.1 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Hope, Anthony | 1863 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
53278 (133) |
13.7 | 1.38 | 8.1 | 75.9 | 6.1 | |
| Details | Anne's House of Dreams | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
78051 (195) |
13.7 | 1.4 | 8.2 | 74.6 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Amateur Cracksman | Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William) | 1866 | 1921 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
51615 (129) |
13.7 | 1.41 | 8.4 | 73.7 | 6.4 | |
| Details | The Rubicon | Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) | 1867 | 1940 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
74278 (185) |
13.8 | 1.45 | 9.1 | 70.2 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Man in the Iron Mask | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 | 24000 |
171959 (429) |
13.8 | 1.49 | 10.2 | 66.8 | 7.4 | |
| Details | The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics | Laozi | Legge, James | (1815) | (1897) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
10365 (25) |
13.8 | 1.41 | 9.4 | 73.7 | 6.4 |
| Details | The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred | Morgan, William | 1774 | 1826 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
112150 (280) |
13.8 | 1.51 | 10.3 | 65.4 | 7.6 | |
| Details | All About Coffee | Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) | 1873 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
387030 (967) |
13.8 | 1.67 | 11.8 | 51.5 | 9.5 | |
| Details | The 2010 CIA World Factbook | United States. Central Intelligence Agency | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
1297237 (3243) |
13.8 | 2.0 | 16.9 | 23.4 | 13.4 | |||
| Details | The Devil's Dictionary | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
58601 (146) |
13.9 | 1.62 | 11.9 | 55.3 | 9.0 | |
| Details | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 13000 | 13000 |
1399 (3) |
13.9 | 1.54 | 9.0 | 62.5 | 8.0 | |
| Details | A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first ti | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
65747 (164) |
13.9 | 1.4 | 8.5 | 74.1 | 6.4 | |
| 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 | Handbook of Embroidery | Higgin, L. | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
14622 (36) |
14.0 | 1.57 | 10.7 | 59.9 | 8.4 | |||
| 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 | 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 | An Imperial Marriage | Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) | 1852 | 1923 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
94091 (235) |
14.1 | 1.4 | 8.7 | 73.9 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Main Street | Lewis, Sinclair | 1885 | 1951 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
164004 (410) |
14.1 | 1.48 | 9.4 | 67.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
111491 (278) |
14.1 | 1.44 | 9.1 | 71.0 | 6.9 | |
| Details | Phèdre. English | Racine, Jean | Boswell, Robert Bruce | 1639 | 1699 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 |
13981 (34) |
14.1 | 1.4 | 8.5 | 74.3 | 6.4 |
| Details | The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
11304 (28) |
14.1 | 1.46 | 9.7 | 68.8 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
111170 (277) |
14.2 | 1.44 | 9.2 | 71.0 | 6.9 | |
| Details | Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | 1866 | 1945 | 4000 | 7000 | 13000 | 13000 | 14000 | 24000 |
27302 (68) |
14.2 | 1.66 | 11.4 | 52.4 | 9.5 | |
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.