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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 The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) (1816) (1878) 2000 4000 8000 12000 18000 23000 125987
    (314)
    9.6 1.43 7.7 76.1 5.0
    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 The Secret Sharer Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 2000 4000 7000 8000 12000 17000 16439
    (41)
    14.4 1.43 9.0 70.9 6.9
    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 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Spenser, Edmund 1552 1599 4000 7000 12000 15000 20000 24000 70160
    (175)
    17.3 1.43 10.4 68.1 8.1
    Details The Minute Man of the Frontier Puddefoot, W. G. 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 54821
    (137)
    19.3 1.43 10.7 66.1 8.8
    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 Adventure of the Dying Detective Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 5730
    (14)
    10.4 1.43 7.6 75.0 5.4
    Details The Sea Wolf London, Jack 1876 1916 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 105143
    (262)
    15.0 1.43 9.1 70.8 7.1
    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 Door in the Wall and Other Stories Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 42660
    (106)
    16.7 1.43 9.8 69.0 7.8
    Details The Robbers Schiller, Friedrich 1759 1805 4000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 49365
    (123)
    9.5 1.43 7.0 76.3 5.0
    Details Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) (1823) (1900) 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 16000 11680
    (29)
    12.8 1.43 8.7 73.0 6.3
    Details Anne of the Island Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 75570
    (188)
    12.7 1.43 8.3 73.0 6.2
    Details Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas Moore, Clement Clarke 1779 1863 2000 5000 7000 9000 12000 15000 1086
    (2)
    16.0 1.43 9.5 69.6 7.5
    Details The Golden Asse Apuleius, Lucius 125 180 3000 6000 10000 15000 17000 23000 80574
    (201)
    51.6 1.43 24.2 33.7 21.4
    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 Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Prest, Thomas Preskett 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 327232
    (818)
    18.9 1.43 11.3 66.6 8.7
    Details Allan Quatermain Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 105546
    (263)
    24.1 1.43 13.0 61.5 10.7
    Details Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Keats, John 1795 1821 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 24000 38774
    (96)
    11.3 1.43 7.9 74.1 5.7
    Details The Odyssey of Homer Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 11000 13000 16000 23000 116500
    (291)
    22.1 1.43 12.4 63.1 10.0
    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 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 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 The Crystal Crypt Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 12000 7313
    (18)
    8.3 1.43 6.0 77.7 4.5
    Details Hamlet Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 22000 28983
    (72)
    8.3 1.43 6.8 77.6 4.5
    Details The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Petrarca, Francesco 1304 1374 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 189869
    (474)
    22.6 1.43 12.7 63.0 10.1
    Details Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Aesop Townsend, George Fyler 620BC (1814) 563BC (1900) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 40748
    (101)
    22.2 1.43 12.6 63.5 9.9
    Details Through Welsh Doorways Marks, Jeannette Augustus 1875 1964 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 23000 41010
    (102)
    15.1 1.43 9.0 70.9 7.1
    Details The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1 Garis, Cleo 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 50450
    (126)
    11.0 1.43 7.5 75.1 5.5
    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 Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 146705
    (366)
    15.3 1.43 9.6 70.6 7.2
    Details A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while i Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 93796
    (234)
    46.5 1.43 22.5 38.7 19.4
    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 The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 54516
    (136)
    12.9 1.43 8.6 72.6 6.3
    Details The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886 1959 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 240707
    (601)
    19.2 1.43 11.1 66.2 8.8
    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 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25369
    (63)
    21.3 1.44 12.1 63.3 9.7
    Details Faust Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Taylor, Bayard 1749 (1825) 1832 (1878) 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 21000 36297
    (90)
    13.2 1.44 8.6 71.3 6.6
    Details Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 1877 1962 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 20000 39112
    (97)
    21.2 1.44 12.4 63.5 9.7
    Details The Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 111170
    (277)
    14.2 1.44 9.2 71.0 6.9
    Details The Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 140685
    (351)
    15.8 1.44 9.9 69.1 7.5
    Details The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 12000 16000 22000 24000 20740
    (51)
    10.7 1.44 7.4 74.4 5.5
    Details Prufrock and Other Observations Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 3812
    (9)
    24.3 1.44 12.9 60.7 10.8
    Details Uncle Vanya Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860 1904 2000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 16391
    (40)
    8.8 1.44 7.1 76.2 4.8
    Details The Phantom of the Opera Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 84224
    (210)
    14.8 1.44 9.6 69.6 7.2
    Details Return of Tarzan Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88607
    (221)
    18.0 1.44 10.8 66.3 8.5
    Details Sailing Alone Around the World Slocum, Joshua 1844 1910 2000 5000 8000 12000 13000 20000 69436
    (173)
    22.4 1.44 12.1 62.0 10.2
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 82534
    (206)
    20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 82500
    (206)
    20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3

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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.