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 Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told | Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) | 1861 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
104277 (260) |
20.9 | 1.61 | 14.4 | 49.3 | 11.6 | |
| Details | A Short History of H.M.S. Victory | Wharton, William James Lloyd | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
15824 (39) |
28.9 | 1.52 | 16.8 | 49.3 | 13.6 | |||
| Details | Phaedrus | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
38099 (95) |
30.0 | 1.5 | 16.9 | 49.6 | 13.8 |
| Details | Fifty Years in Chains Or, the Life of an American Slave | Ball, Charles | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
105338 (263) |
35.5 | 1.43 | 17.9 | 49.7 | 15.1 | |||
| Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
98568 (246) |
25.9 | 1.55 | 15.6 | 49.8 | 12.7 | |
| Details | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Ann Ward | 1764 | 1823 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
289394 (723) |
27.3 | 1.53 | 16.5 | 49.8 | 13.1 | |
| Details | Adventurings in the Psychical | Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) | 1874 | 1959 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
56849 (142) |
21.3 | 1.6 | 14.5 | 49.8 | 11.6 | |
| Details | New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin | Various | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
130202 (325) |
23.1 | 1.58 | 15.0 | 49.8 | 12.0 | |||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Love and Freindship [sic] | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32937 (82) |
26.6 | 1.53 | 16.0 | 50.0 | 12.9 | |
| Details | Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi | Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von | Huggard, E. M. | 1646 | 1716 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 20000 |
184166 (460) |
24.4 | 1.56 | 15.6 | 50.1 | 12.3 |
| Details | The Ladies Delight | Anonymous | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 |
4466 (11) |
42.1 | 1.35 | 19.5 | 50.1 | 16.7 | |||
| Details | Nationalism | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
26616 (66) |
24.0 | 1.56 | 15.2 | 50.2 | 12.2 | |
| Details | The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
9530 (23) |
19.3 | 1.62 | 13.7 | 50.2 | 11.1 | |||
| Details | Palmistry for All | Cheiro | 1866 | 1936 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 21000 |
41356 (103) |
28.5 | 1.51 | 16.3 | 50.3 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan | Churchill, Winston | 1874 | 1965 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 13000 | 23000 |
124226 (310) |
19.9 | 1.61 | 14.3 | 50.3 | 11.2 | |
| Details | The Story of Versailles | Payne, Francis Loring | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
33903 (84) |
23.1 | 1.57 | 15.1 | 50.4 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With | Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) | 1843 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
200768 (501) |
22.5 | 1.58 | 14.8 | 50.5 | 11.8 | |
| Details | Autobiography of a Yogi | Yogananda, Paramahansa | 1893 | 1952 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
153564 (383) |
15.3 | 1.66 | 12.6 | 50.5 | 10.0 | |
| Details | How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] | Lehmann, Lilli | Aldrich, Richard | 1848 (1863) | 1929 (1937) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
31812 (79) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.2 | 50.7 | 12.5 |
| Details | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles | 1814 | 1889 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
273706 (684) |
23.0 | 1.57 | 15.0 | 50.7 | 11.9 | |
| Details | The Oxford Book of American Essays | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
161947 (404) |
24.8 | 1.55 | 15.1 | 50.8 | 12.3 | ||||
| Details | Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
51555 (128) |
28.8 | 1.5 | 16.0 | 50.9 | 13.3 | |
| 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 | 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
11354 (28) |
22.8 | 1.57 | 14.4 | 51.0 | 11.8 | |
| Details | The Invention of the Sewing Machine | Cooper, Grace Rogers | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
44774 (111) |
10.5 | 1.71 | 10.8 | 51.1 | 8.8 | |||
| Details | Beast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations wit | Kipling, John Lockwood | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93292 (233) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.0 | 51.1 | 12.4 | |||
| Details | Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 | Bellamy, Edward | 1850 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
77522 (193) |
24.0 | 1.55 | 15.1 | 51.1 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Latin for Beginners | D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) | 1860 | 1940 | 7000 | 13000 | 20000 | 22000 | 23000 | 24000 |
91186 (227) |
8.2 | 1.74 | 10.8 | 51.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Turner | Monkhouse, William Cosmo | 1840 | 1901 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39762 (99) |
26.3 | 1.52 | 15.5 | 51.2 | 12.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 Elements of Style | Strunk, William | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
13203 (33) |
15.7 | 1.65 | 13.1 | 51.3 | 10.0 | |||
| Details | The Souls of Black Folk | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) | 1868 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
68801 (172) |
25.9 | 1.53 | 14.9 | 51.3 | 12.5 | |
| Details | Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People | Mallery, Garrick | 1831 | 1894 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
115635 (289) |
19.9 | 1.6 | 14.1 | 51.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition | Duncan, A. W. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
31665 (79) |
14.3 | 1.66 | 12.8 | 51.5 | 9.6 | |||
| Details | Ivanhoe | Scott, Walter, Sir | 1771 | 1832 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
190957 (477) |
28.7 | 1.49 | 16.0 | 51.5 | 13.2 | |
| 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 Hindu-Arabic Numerals | Karpinski, Louis Charles | 1878 | 1956 | 3000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
45182 (112) |
11.6 | 1.69 | 11.9 | 51.6 | 8.9 | |
| Details | The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
10194 (25) |
7.3 | 1.75 | 11.5 | 51.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Essays of Francis Bacon | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
52994 (132) |
29.0 | 1.48 | 16.2 | 51.9 | 13.2 | |
| Details | Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship | Jack, George | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
40537 (101) |
22.7 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 51.9 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script | Talmage, James Edward | 1862 | 1933 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 13000 | 18000 |
294595 (736) |
23.6 | 1.55 | 15.2 | 51.9 | 11.9 | |
| Details | The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 | Wordsworth, William | 1770 | 1850 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
118027 (295) |
29.5 | 1.48 | 15.9 | 52.0 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 16000 | 18000 | 23000 |
9268 (23) |
12.3 | 1.68 | 11.9 | 52.0 | 9.1 | |||
| 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 | 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 | |
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.