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 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
147161 (367) |
18.3 | 1.45 | 11.1 | 65.7 | 8.6 | |
| 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 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
116398 (290) |
20.0 | 1.42 | 11.2 | 66.5 | 9.0 | |
| Details | A Princess of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
67354 (168) |
28.6 | 1.5 | 15.5 | 51.3 | 13.2 | |
| 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 | Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
101388 (253) |
14.7 | 1.43 | 9.3 | 71.1 | 7.0 | |
| 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 | Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 24000 |
28873 (72) |
14.1 | 1.36 | 7.7 | 77.5 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Dubliners | Joyce, James | 1882 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
66695 (166) |
14.3 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 71.7 | 6.8 | |
| Details | Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103706 (259) |
36.5 | 1.51 | 19.2 | 42.3 | 16.4 | |
| Details | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 19000 |
26275 (65) |
16.6 | 1.36 | 8.7 | 75.1 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Jungle Book | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 25000 |
50599 (126) |
15.9 | 1.33 | 8.1 | 78.1 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
74768 (186) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.3 | 52.9 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
67669 (169) |
17.9 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.3 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races | Allen, Emory Adams | 1853 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
206643 (516) |
18.2 | 1.56 | 13.0 | 56.2 | 9.9 | ||
| Details | The Critique of Pure Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) | 1724 (1830) | 1804 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 |
206467 (516) |
35.8 | 1.72 | 22.9 | 24.9 | 18.7 |
| Details | Second Treatise of Government | Locke, John | 1632 | 1704 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
56126 (140) |
33.0 | 1.51 | 18.6 | 45.7 | 15.1 | |
| Details | The War of the Worlds | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
59603 (149) |
18.2 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 62.4 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Time Machine | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32111 (80) |
16.8 | 1.5 | 10.8 | 62.6 | 8.7 | |
| Details | Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 | Boy Scouts of America | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
122326 (305) |
15.9 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 64.8 | 8.2 | |||
| Details | My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition | Anonymous | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
263497 (658) |
18.4 | 1.37 | 9.6 | 72.1 | 7.8 | |||
| Details | Andersen's Fairy Tales | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
55132 (137) |
17.7 | 1.36 | 9.6 | 73.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The | Equiano, Olaudah | 1745 | 1797 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
81664 (204) |
29.1 | 1.46 | 15.7 | 53.5 | 13.0 | |
| Details | Euthyphro | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 8000 | 15000 | 19000 |
9188 (22) |
19.3 | 1.48 | 13.0 | 62.1 | 9.4 |
| Details | The Importance of Being Earnest | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 | 21000 |
20449 (51) |
7.8 | 1.55 | 8.4 | 68.1 | 5.7 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
21504 (53) |
31.1 | 1.55 | 18.1 | 44.2 | 14.8 | |
| Details | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas | 1588 | 1679 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 |
211956 (529) |
34.2 | 1.51 | 19.0 | 44.3 | 15.6 | |
| Details | The Invisible Man | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
47694 (119) |
12.5 | 1.47 | 8.6 | 70.2 | 6.6 | |
| Details | Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards | Edwards, Jonathan | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
70313 (175) |
25.6 | 1.49 | 15.3 | 55.1 | 11.9 | |||
| Details | Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
37389 (93) |
15.6 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 66.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | A Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 | 18000 |
3406 (8) |
50.8 | 1.53 | 25.1 | 25.5 | 22.3 | |
| Details | English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- | Long, William J. (William Joseph) | 1867 | 1952 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204834 (512) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.5 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant | Maupassant, Guy de | 1850 | 1893 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
489213 (1223) |
16.9 | 1.45 | 10.5 | 67.2 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | Best Russian Short Stories | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
94443 (236) |
15.3 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 66.6 | 7.8 | ||||
| Details | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | Aesop | Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
41387 (103) |
25.3 | 1.33 | 12.4 | 68.4 | 10.0 |
| Details | The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
274389 (685) |
30.2 | 1.57 | 17.9 | 43.2 | 14.7 | |
| Details | The Anti-Slavery Alphabet | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
706 (1) |
18.6 | 1.35 | 9.2 | 74.1 | 7.5 | |||
| Details | The Antichrist | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) | 1844 (1880) | 1900 (1956) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
32360 (80) |
32.0 | 1.59 | 18.7 | 39.5 | 15.7 |
| Details | The Canterville Ghost | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
11587 (28) |
26.1 | 1.49 | 14.9 | 54.5 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 24000 |
78609 (196) |
12.1 | 1.43 | 8.3 | 73.3 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | Rowlandson, Mary White | 1635 | 1710 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 |
20128 (50) |
25.9 | 1.35 | 12.9 | 66.1 | 10.5 | |
| Details | Steam, Its Generation and Use | Babcock & Wilcox Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 20000 |
120558 (301) |
9.8 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 56.0 | 7.9 | |||
| Details | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
69729 (174) |
14.3 | 1.4 | 8.6 | 74.1 | 6.5 | |
| Details | The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan | Ashford, Daisy | 1881 | 1972 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
14509 (36) |
18.3 | 1.42 | 10.2 | 68.0 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
10194 (25) |
7.3 | 1.75 | 11.5 | 51.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
68147 (170) |
17.8 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.2 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Game of Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
13040 (32) |
8.5 | 1.46 | 7.4 | 74.7 | 4.9 | |
| Details | Omnilingual | Piper, H. Beam | 1904 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
16172 (40) |
14.5 | 1.52 | 10.4 | 63.4 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. | Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) | 1848 | 1929 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
150454 (376) |
32.0 | 1.5 | 17.5 | 47.8 | 14.5 | |
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.