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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 Mertvye dushi. English Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Hogarth, D. J. 1809 1852 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 140991
    (352)
    20.0 1.52 12.8 58.0 10.1
    Details On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 154299
    (385)
    30.7 1.67 19.2 34.8 16.0
    Details The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)
    19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    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 Voyage of the Beagle Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 21000 210326
    (525)
    21.0 1.57 13.8 52.6 11.1
    Details The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 58756
    (146)
    19.8 1.5 12.5 59.8 9.8
    Details The Descent of Man Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 298564
    (746)
    17.6 1.66 14.0 48.4 10.9
    Details The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 20000 6977
    (17)
    29.1 1.62 17.8 40.3 14.9
    Details My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kr Kronheim, Joseph Martin 1810 1896 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 4593
    (11)
    22.7 1.32 10.4 72.5 8.8
    Details North and South Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810 1865 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 17000 179050
    (447)
    16.8 1.41 10.0 70.3 7.6
    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 Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811 1863 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 298755
    (746)
    22.3 1.48 13.0 59.0 10.6
    Details Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 17000 156033
    (390)
    16.9 1.46 10.6 66.5 8.2
    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 A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 134550
    (336)
    17.3 1.44 10.5 67.2 8.2
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 28431
    (71)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.4 6.5
    Details Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 183813
    (459)
    18.8 1.42 10.8 67.3 8.5
    Details David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)
    17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 213290
    (533)
    20.8 1.43 12.0 64.6 9.4
    Details Little Dorrit Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 332182
    (830)
    18.1 1.47 11.2 64.5 8.8
    Details The Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 290649
    (726)
    17.4 1.51 11.3 61.7 9.0
    Details Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 12000 17000 17000 319979
    (799)
    15.6 1.46 10.0 67.8 7.7
    Details Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 24000 349083
    (872)
    19.4 1.45 11.5 64.1 9.1
    Details The Pied Piper of Hamelin Browning, Robert 1812 1889 4000 7000 11000 15000 16000 20000 2145
    (5)
    23.3 1.38 11.3 66.5 9.8
    Details Nonsense Books Lear, Edward 1812 1888 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 19000 28733
    (71)
    18.8 1.47 11.3 63.2 9.1
    Details The Mystery of Edwin Drood Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 93989
    (234)
    16.5 1.48 10.6 65.0 8.3
    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 The Battle of Life A Love Story Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 11000 12000 16000 29592
    (73)
    14.7 1.45 9.4 69.5 7.2
    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 Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 317769
    (794)
    19.4 1.49 12.3 61.1 9.6
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 29106
    (72)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) 1813 1897 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 82835
    (207)
    16.2 1.43 10.0 69.8 7.5
    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 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 Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 183151
    (457)
    18.5 1.46 11.2 64.3 8.9
    Details Villette Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 20000 189437
    (473)
    18.2 1.5 11.4 61.8 9.2
    Details Walden Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 114891
    (287)
    27.9 1.46 15.0 55.4 12.5
    Details Walking Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 17000 12032
    (30)
    24.9 1.48 14.2 56.1 11.6
    Details Civil Disobedience Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 9251
    (23)
    26.4 1.5 15.2 53.5 12.3
    Details Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40404
    (101)
    20.3 1.48 12.3 60.7 9.8
    Details Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily 1818 1848 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 114539
    (286)
    16.9 1.46 10.6 65.8 8.3
    Details Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx, Karl 1818 1883 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 39830
    (99)
    30.8 1.72 20.5 29.7 16.8
    Details Smoke Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Garnett, Constance 1818 (1861) 1883 (1946) 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 64820
    (162)
    18.1 1.52 12.2 60.0 9.4
    Details My Bondage and My Freedom Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 131906
    (329)
    23.6 1.51 14.2 54.7 11.5
    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 Middlemarch Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 311801
    (779)
    20.7 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.1
    Details Moby Dick, or, the whale Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 211314
    (528)
    21.5 1.49 12.6 59.4 10.3
    Details Silas Marner Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 70159
    (175)
    26.6 1.43 13.8 58.8 11.7
    Details The Piazza Tales Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 78731
    (196)
    23.0 1.55 14.2 52.4 11.7
    Details Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street Melville, Herman 1819 1891 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 19000 14288
    (35)
    17.6 1.57 12.3 56.2 9.8

    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.