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 | His Last Bow | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
6059 (15) |
12.9 | 1.43 | 8.1 | 73.2 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt | Baikie, James | 1866 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
26825 (67) |
27.7 | 1.39 | 14.0 | 61.2 | 11.6 | |
| Details | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
27904 (69) |
19.4 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 60.6 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates | Plato | Cary, Henry | 427BC (1804) | 347BC (1870) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 20000 |
51647 (129) |
21.7 | 1.45 | 13.1 | 62.5 | 9.9 |
| 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 | Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
145128 (362) |
32.5 | 1.6 | 19.5 | 38.3 | 16.0 | |
| Details | Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth | Descartes, René | 1596 | 1650 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
23024 (57) |
81.4 | 1.54 | 38.0 | -5.7 | 34.3 | |
| Details | Politics: A Treatise on Government | Aristotle | Ellis, William | 384BC | 322BC | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
101343 (253) |
55.7 | 1.54 | 27.9 | 20.4 | 24.2 |
| Details | Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary De | -Buckelew, Sarah F. (Sarah Frances) | 1835 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
24947 (62) |
12.8 | 1.38 | 7.9 | 76.9 | 5.7 | ||
| Details | The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in | Engels, Friedrich | Kelley, Florence | 1820 (1859) | 1895 (1932) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
114426 (286) |
27.4 | 1.62 | 17.1 | 42.3 | 14.2 |
| Details | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25355 (63) |
21.4 | 1.44 | 12.2 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Daddy-Long-Legs | Webster, Jean | 1876 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
36296 (90) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.3 | 67.5 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Forsyte Saga - Complete | Galsworthy, John | 1867 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
313254 (783) |
14.3 | 1.43 | 9.1 | 71.7 | 6.8 | |
| 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 | The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Alexander | 1757 | 1804 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
191873 (479) |
31.9 | 1.69 | 20.8 | 31.4 | 16.8 | |
| Details | A Course In Wood Turning | ?-Milton, Archie Seldon | 1887 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 11000 | 14000 |
13683 (34) |
16.0 | 1.43 | 9.9 | 69.3 | 7.6 | ||
| Details | Merlin A Poem | Robinson, Edwin Arlington | 1869 | 1935 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
21993 (54) |
29.6 | 1.35 | 14.5 | 62.2 | 11.9 | |
| Details | The Career of Katherine Bush | Glyn, Elinor | 1864 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 19000 |
105388 (263) |
17.8 | 1.46 | 11.2 | 65.4 | 8.6 | |
| 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 | Irene Iddesleigh | Ros, Amanda Mc | 1860 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
33703 (84) |
30.3 | 1.56 | 17.4 | 44.2 | 14.6 | |
| Details | The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written b | Díaz del Castillo, Bernal | Lockhart, John Ingram | 1492 | 1585 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
183124 (457) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.7 | 45.8 | 14.2 |
| Details | The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
134572 (336) |
18.1 | 1.49 | 11.4 | 62.8 | 9.0 | |
| Details | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42069 (105) |
16.3 | 1.4 | 9.8 | 71.5 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Art of War | Sunzi | Giles, Lionel | (1875) | (1958) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
10489 (26) |
11.5 | 1.53 | 9.9 | 65.9 | 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 | Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma | 1869 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
67167 (167) |
21.2 | 1.64 | 15.1 | 46.2 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Possessed (The Devils) | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Garnett, Constance | 1821 (1861) | 1881 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
252520 (631) |
15.5 | 1.5 | 10.9 | 64.3 | 8.1 |
| Details | The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | Garnett, Constance | 1860 (1861) | 1904 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
71033 (177) |
17.1 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 8.2 |
| Details | The Wendigo | Blackwood, Algernon | 1869 | 1951 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
18159 (45) |
21.0 | 1.49 | 12.9 | 59.1 | 10.2 | |
| Details | Biblical Geography and History | Kent, Charles Foster | 1867 | 1925 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 22000 |
99638 (249) |
22.8 | 1.62 | 15.4 | 46.3 | 12.5 | |
| 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 | The Art of Public Speaking | Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) | 1867 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
154880 (387) |
17.2 | 1.54 | 12.1 | 59.1 | 9.3 | |
| Details | Daisy Miller | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
21009 (52) |
12.8 | 1.52 | 10.0 | 65.3 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Email 101 | Goodwin, John | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 19000 |
19561 (48) |
15.1 | 1.63 | 12.3 | 53.6 | 9.5 | |||
| Details | What's Wrong with the World | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
59904 (149) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 52.8 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Cautionary Tales for Children | Belloc, Hilaire | 1870 | 1953 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
2620 (6) |
16.4 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 8.5 | |
| 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 | The Madman | Gibran, Khalil | 1883 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
7034 (17) |
17.5 | 1.36 | 9.1 | 74.3 | 7.2 | |
| 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 Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
70421 (176) |
12.3 | 1.41 | 7.9 | 75.2 | 5.8 | |
| Details | The Cid | Corneille, Pierre | Mongan, Roscoe | 1606 | 1684 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
18903 (47) |
12.1 | 1.46 | 8.8 | 70.7 | 6.4 |
| 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 | The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United | Wells-Barnett, Ida B. | 1862 | 1931 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
33314 (83) |
20.7 | 1.54 | 13.4 | 55.5 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany | Fox, Edward Lyell | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
85448 (213) |
18.8 | 1.48 | 11.4 | 62.7 | 9.2 | |||
| 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 | Anthony Trent, Master Criminal | Martyn, Wyndham | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
80574 (201) |
12.7 | 1.48 | 9.3 | 69.0 | 6.8 | ||
| Details | The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of | Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte | Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) | 1873 (1873) | 1897 (1963) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
104435 (261) |
20.1 | 1.43 | 11.4 | 65.5 | 9.1 |
| 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 | Defenders of Democracy | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
12711 (31) |
5.7 | 1.71 | 9.4 | 56.4 | 6.8 | |||
| 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 | |
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.
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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.