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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 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 Pollyanna Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) 1868 1920 1000 3000 6000 8000 9000 14000 54339
    (135)
    11.6 1.4 7.8 76.5 5.5
    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 Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 1873 1939 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74336
    (185)
    19.0 1.45 11.3 65.2 8.9
    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 The Mystery of Jockey Hollow Arden Blake Mystery Series #2 Garis, Cleo 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 45337
    (113)
    11.1 1.41 7.5 75.9 5.4
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 124102
    (310)
    22.4 1.45 13.2 61.6 10.2
    Details A Child's History of England Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 161921
    (404)
    29.2 1.44 15.5 55.5 12.8
    Details The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put Riley, Harvey 2000 4000 6000 8000 12000 19000 28496
    (71)
    21.3 1.43 12.1 64.4 9.6
    Details Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74652
    (186)
    18.2 1.47 11.3 64.2 8.8
    Details A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 29348
    (73)
    12.3 1.45 8.4 71.7 6.3
    Details The Arabian Nights Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 111534
    (278)
    23.9 1.4 12.9 63.8 10.3
    Details Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure Stone, A. 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 56530
    (141)
    15.7 1.45 9.7 68.7 7.6
    Details Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Richardson, Samuel 1689 1761 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 221156
    (552)
    26.6 1.37 13.2 63.7 11.0
    Details Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 258577
    (646)
    15.5 1.42 9.6 70.9 7.2
    Details Mark Twain's Speeches Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 92337
    (230)
    19.2 1.47 11.6 63.2 9.2
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 6000 9000 12000 19000 11622
    (29)
    15.8 1.29 7.4 81.3 5.8
    Details Pygmalion Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 33146
    (82)
    10.4 1.48 8.2 71.5 5.9
    Details The Blue Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 138225
    (345)
    24.9 1.35 12.4 67.7 10.0
    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 History of the United States Beard, Mary Ritter 1876 1958 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 199929
    (499)
    18.8 1.71 15.4 42.7 12.0
    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 A Room with a View Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879 1970 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 65560
    (163)
    11.3 1.45 8.3 72.5 5.9
    Details Japanese Fairy Tales Ozaki, Yei Theodora 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 70489
    (176)
    20.6 1.36 10.9 70.7 8.5
    Details British Political Leaders Mc 1830 1912 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 63507
    (158)
    29.9 1.61 18.3 40.3 15.1
    Details The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known Jacobs, Joseph 1854 1916 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 22000 46249
    (115)
    15.9 1.63 13.1 52.9 9.8
    Details The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Wayburn, Ned 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 108666
    (271)
    22.1 1.55 14.4 53.4 11.3
    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 The Frontier in American History Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861 1932 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 112204
    (280)
    24.6 1.7 17.3 38.2 14.0
    Details Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book after Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 6000 8000 14000 21000 15023
    (37)
    18.5 1.37 9.7 71.8 7.8
    Details Lulu's Library, Volume I (of 3) Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 50272
    (125)
    19.9 1.33 9.5 74.4 7.8
    Details As a Man Thinketh Allen, James 1864 1912 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 7517
    (18)
    26.6 1.56 16.3 47.6 13.2
    Details The Variable Man Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 18000 24824
    (62)
    7.8 1.51 7.4 71.3 5.3
    Details The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 994
    (2)
    16.3 1.54 11.0 60.2 8.9
    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 The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 Herodotus Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) 480BC (1852) 420BC (1915) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 19000 159214
    (398)
    38.2 1.44 19.5 45.9 16.4
    Details A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 96732
    (241)
    17.1 1.41 10.0 70.0 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 Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska Gillis, Charles J. 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 10605
    (26)
    21.6 1.5 13.0 57.8 10.6
    Details Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories; Second Series Nicholson, Meredith 1866 1947 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 117496
    (293)
    14.9 1.45 9.5 68.9 7.3
    Details The Best American Humorous Short Stories 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 21000 101352
    (253)
    17.6 1.5 11.4 62.4 8.9
    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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 128461
    (321)
    28.9 1.35 14.4 63.1 11.6
    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

    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.