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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 Old Road Belloc, Hilaire 1870 1953 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 54235
    (135)
    27.0 1.48 15.1 54.2 12.4
    Details A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago Sedgwick, Anne Douglas 1873 1935 2000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 27814
    (69)
    22.9 1.47 12.8 59.5 10.7
    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 Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews United States. Work Projects Administration 2000 6000 9000 15000 20000 22000 126940
    (317)
    17.2 1.35 8.8 75.6 7.0
    Details The jungle book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 51432
    (128)
    16.6 1.34 8.4 76.7 6.7
    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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26821
    (67)
    16.4 1.36 8.7 74.9 6.9
    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 Deathworld Harrison, Harry 1925 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 56945
    (142)
    11.4 1.42 7.5 75.0 5.6
    Details Peter and Wendy Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 47114
    (117)
    14.8 1.36 8.4 76.5 6.3
    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 Pursuit of God Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson) 1897 1963 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 29000
    (72)
    19.4 1.44 11.6 65.4 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 Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit Harris, Joel Chandler 1848 1908 2000 6000 9000 14000 17000 22000 6823
    (17)
    22.2 1.24 10.0 79.0 7.8
    Details The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 18000 114750
    (286)
    30.5 1.44 16.2 53.8 13.3
    Details Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Winslow, Anna Green 1759 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 27973
    (69)
    17.1 1.48 10.7 64.2 8.6
    Details Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 73971
    (184)
    27.2 1.54 16.1 49.0 13.2
    Details Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience Matthews, Ike 1857 1913 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 14490
    (36)
    26.6 1.37 13.1 63.8 11.0
    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 Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828) (1889) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 127694
    (319)
    14.6 1.42 9.1 71.6 6.9
    Details The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Wilson, Woodrow 1856 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 8000 14000 54535
    (136)
    27.1 1.54 16.5 48.8 13.2
    Details First Lessons in Geography Or, Introduction to Youth's Manual of Geography Monteith, James 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 17000 5269
    (13)
    3.1 1.69 7.6 60.8 5.5
    Details Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 8000 13000 17000 24000 73251
    (183)
    11.4 1.44 7.8 73.2 5.9
    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 Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Casanova, Giacomo Machen, Arthur 1725 (1863) 1798 (1947) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 1251067
    (3127)
    20.8 1.46 12.2 62.4 9.7
    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 She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith, Oliver 1730 1774 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 22563
    (56)
    8.3 1.42 6.0 78.2 4.4
    Details Stories from Hans Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 36988
    (92)
    18.2 1.34 9.4 75.1 7.3
    Details The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 86554
    (216)
    26.2 1.45 14.5 57.4 11.8
    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 Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 8000 12000 16000 22000 28603
    (71)
    17.3 1.38 9.0 72.8 7.4
    Details Dodo Wonders Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867 1940 2000 4000 9000 15000 15000 16000 64785
    (161)
    16.2 1.45 10.0 68.1 7.8
    Details Short Stories Dostoievski, Fiodor 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 79953
    (199)
    15.4 1.48 10.3 66.3 7.8
    Details The American Horsewoman Karr, Elizabeth 2000 4000 7000 11000 12000 20000 70753
    (176)
    27.7 1.48 15.1 54.0 12.6
    Details Discoverers and Explorers Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard) 1855 1903 2000 4000 6000 7000 9000 17000 20101
    (50)
    19.6 1.48 12.3 61.4 9.6
    Details The Lost World Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 75381
    (188)
    17.0 1.47 10.9 65.2 8.4
    Details A Damsel in Distress Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 76064
    (190)
    11.6 1.46 8.3 71.8 6.1
    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 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 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 Romance of Tristan and Iseult Bédier, Joseph Belloc, Hilaire 1864 (1870) 1938 (1953) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 25763
    (64)
    23.0 1.28 10.7 75.3 8.5
    Details The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details The Burglars' Club A Romance in Twelve Chronicles Hering, Henry A. 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 22000 51301
    (128)
    11.1 1.49 8.8 69.2 6.4
    Details Anabasis Xenophon Dakyns, Henry Graham 431BC (1838) 350BC (1911) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 93859
    (234)
    26.4 1.47 15.1 55.8 12.0
    Details L'avare. English Molière Wall, Charles Heron 1622 1673 2000 3000 8000 12000 15000 22000 22064
    (55)
    8.8 1.37 6.2 82.1 4.0
    Details The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners Ruskin, John 1819 1900 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 72573
    (181)
    29.6 1.47 16.0 52.7 13.3
    Details The Story of Mankind Van Loon, Hendrik Willem 1882 1944 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 128493
    (321)
    21.3 1.56 14.0 53.3 11.1
    Details Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 23000 47634
    (119)
    16.0 1.44 10.5 68.4 7.7

    Notes:

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    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.