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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 Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Bulfinch, Thomas 1796 1867 3000 6000 9000 13000 17000 24000 145570
    (363)    		 21.7 1.48 13.2 59.5 10.4
    Details Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 17000 74768
    (186)    		 22.5 1.55 14.3 52.9 11.5
    Details The Last Man Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 173882
    (434)    		 25.1 1.53 15.1 52.3 12.2
    Details Father Goriot Balzac, Honoré de Marriage, Ellen 1799 1850 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 103094
    (257)    		 15.2 1.44 9.6 70.0 7.3
    Details Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1850 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 10624
    (26)    		 17.3 1.44 10.4 67.3 8.2
    Details McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition Mc 1800 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 7379
    (18)    		 10.1 1.27 5.3 89.4 3.3
    Details The Pencil of Nature Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800 1877 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 14000 9368
    (23)    		 19.4 1.6 13.8 52.0 10.8
    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 Les Misérables Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 562958
    (1407)    		 15.6 1.5 10.9 64.1 8.2
    Details The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 5000 9000 12000 17000 21000 227889
    (569)    		 14.7 1.48 10.7 66.6 7.6
    Details The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)    		 16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    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 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 American Frugal Housewife Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 20000 44452
    (111)    		 18.4 1.42 10.5 68.1 8.3
    Details Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802 1875 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 294773
    (736)    		 22.0 1.56 14.4 52.6 11.4
    Details Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)    		 16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    Details The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures Hopkins, Mark 1802 1887 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 15404
    (38)    		 32.4 1.55 18.6 43.2 15.3
    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 Nature Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 15310
    (38)    		 19.0 1.52 12.8 58.8 9.8
    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
    Details The Coming Race Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron 1803 1873 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 52320
    (130)    		 29.3 1.56 17.2 45.2 14.2
    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 Alexander the Great Makers of History Abbott, Jacob 1803 1879 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 52859
    (132)    		 23.5 1.6 15.8 48.0 12.4
    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 Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 72871
    (182)    		 22.0 1.53 13.8 54.7 11.1
    Details Twice Told Tales Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 20000 145292
    (363)    		 23.8 1.5 13.9 55.3 11.5
    Details The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 20000 83847
    (209)    		 23.1 1.53 14.2 53.8 11.5
    Details House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 105173
    (262)    		 22.8 1.54 14.1 53.6 11.4
    Details Andersen's Fairy Tales Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 55132
    (137)    		 17.7 1.36 9.6 73.4 7.4
    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 Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 370669
    (926)    		 20.0 1.36 10.4 71.6 8.2
    Details The Book of Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1805 1844 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 17000 275021
    (687)    		 35.8 1.39 17.5 53.1 14.7
    Details Stories from Hans Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 36988
    (92)    		 18.2 1.34 9.4 75.1 7.3
    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 Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)    		 29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9
    Details On Liberty Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 51737
    (129)    		 35.8 1.64 21.3 31.8 17.7
    Details A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 408771
    (1021)    		 35.2 1.66 21.6 30.6 17.7
    Details Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Exp Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 231338
    (578)    		 23.3 1.65 16.3 43.5 13.0
    Details Utilitarianism Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 27456
    (68)    		 39.0 1.64 22.5 28.2 19.0
    Details A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Cutter, Calvin 1807 1872 4000 6000 11000 15000 19000 24000 134981
    (337)    		 10.9 1.62 10.9 58.6 7.8
    Details The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Mackey, Albert Gallatin 1807 1881 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 70062
    (175)    		 26.1 1.65 17.7 40.8 14.1
    Details The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philoso Mackey, Albert Gallatin 1807 1881 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 100385
    (250)    		 23.8 1.65 16.8 43.3 13.1
    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 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 Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809 1894 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 2343
    (5)    		 14.7 1.27 6.8 84.1 5.2
    Details The Masque of the Red Death Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 14000 18000 2384
    (5)    		 23.6 1.48 14.1 57.9 11.1
    Details The Cask of Amontillado Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 11000 17000 19000 19000 2302
    (5)    		 10.0 1.51 8.4 68.9 6.1
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 77252
    (193)    		 18.8 1.58 13.2 53.7 10.5
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)    		 21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 153985
    (384)    		 29.6 1.67 18.8 35.7 15.6

    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.