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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 Marvelous Land of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 42055
    (105)
    15.4 1.46 10.1 67.7 7.6
    Details The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 111009
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Dir Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) 1871 1954 4000 6000 9000 14000 17000 21000 10808
    (27)
    16.3 1.46 10.1 67.1 7.9
    Details The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 6000 9000 13000 16000 20000 1235
    (3)
    18.4 1.46 10.1 65.0 8.8
    Details Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Beard, Daniel Carter 1850 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 50042
    (125)
    17.8 1.39 10.1 71.4 7.7
    Details The Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 110924
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 134240
    (335)
    16.4 1.44 10.1 67.9 7.9
    Details A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 43598
    (108)
    15.8 1.46 10.2 67.2 7.8
    Details The Turn of the Screw James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 14000 41719
    (104)
    16.9 1.43 10.2 69.1 7.8
    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 First Men in the Moon Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 67768
    (169)
    15.6 1.49 10.2 65.2 8.0
    Details The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine 1870 1922 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 107279
    (268)
    16.5 1.47 10.2 66.1 8.1
    Details The Wind in the Willows Grahame, Kenneth 1859 1932 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 17000 57985
    (144)
    18.1 1.41 10.2 69.4 8.1
    Details Herland Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 51298
    (128)
    15.4 1.47 10.2 67.1 7.7
    Details Captain Blood Sabatini, Rafael 1875 1950 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 112331
    (280)
    14.5 1.48 10.2 66.7 7.6
    Details The Tale of Tom Kitten Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 3000 7000 10000 13000 13000 13000 754
    (1)
    15.1 1.51 10.2 64.2 8.1
    Details The Man in the Iron Mask Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 3000 4000 9000 10000 14000 24000 171959
    (429)
    13.8 1.49 10.2 66.8 7.4
    Details Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous 1894 1963 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 56364
    (140)
    13.6 1.53 10.2 63.1 7.8
    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 Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 14000 34572
    (86)
    19.4 1.39 10.3 69.7 8.4
    Details Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 81525
    (203)
    21.2 1.34 10.3 71.7 8.5
    Details The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 57869
    (144)
    16.2 1.46 10.3 67.1 7.9
    Details The Golden Goose Book Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 1000 3000 6000 9000 14000 14000 5262
    (13)
    21.4 1.29 10.3 76.2 7.9
    Details The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 4000 6000 6000 8000 9000 1158
    (2)
    16.5 1.51 10.3 62.5 8.7
    Details The Old Man of the Mountain Strang, Herbert 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 20000 58447
    (146)
    15.1 1.47 10.3 67.3 7.6
    Details The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred Morgan, William 1774 1826 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 112150
    (280)
    13.8 1.51 10.3 65.4 7.6
    Details Short Stories Dostoievski, Fiodor 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 79953
    (199)
    15.4 1.48 10.3 66.3 7.8
    Details Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 135621
    (339)
    16.3 1.47 10.3 66.1 8.1
    Details Thuvia, Maid of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 24000 46927
    (117)
    15.8 1.46 10.3 67.0 7.8
    Details The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 48890
    (122)
    17.0 1.45 10.3 66.8 8.2
    Details Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave Aveling, Eleanor Marx 1821 (1855) 1880 (1898) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 115415
    (288)
    16.6 1.45 10.4 66.9 8.1
    Details The Call of the Wild London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 23000 31797
    (79)
    18.7 1.39 10.4 69.9 8.1
    Details The Trial Kafka, Franz Wyllie, David 1883 1924 1000 2000 4000 5000 7000 12000 82679
    (206)
    17.6 1.4 10.4 70.4 7.8
    Details Best Russian Short Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 94443
    (236)
    15.3 1.47 10.4 66.6 7.8
    Details Grimm's Fairy Tales Grimm, Jacob 1785 1863 1000 3000 5000 8000 10000 16000 100994
    (252)
    22.3 1.28 10.4 76.2 8.2
    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 Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf For the Use of Teachers Newell, Jane H. (Jane Hancox) 3000 5000 8000 12000 18000 24000 26005
    (65)
    15.1 1.49 10.4 65.2 7.9
    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 Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 370669
    (926)
    20.0 1.36 10.4 71.6 8.2
    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 Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 2000 4000 8000 10000 12000 19000 127361
    (318)
    17.0 1.45 10.4 67.2 8.1
    Details The Idiot Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Martin, Eva M. 1821 1881 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 239039
    (597)
    14.9 1.47 10.4 67.1 7.6
    Details The Moonstone Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 19000 191496
    (478)
    15.9 1.47 10.4 66.8 7.9
    Details The House on the Borderland Hodgson, William Hope 1877 1918 2000 4000 6000 9000 10000 15000 50522
    (126)
    17.3 1.47 10.4 65.1 8.5
    Details Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 Various 5000 9000 15000 18000 20000 24000 53847
    (134)
    4.6 1.89 10.4 42.6 8.5
    Details Eve's Diary, Complete Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 6746
    (16)
    19.9 1.37 10.4 70.6 8.4
    Details Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1850 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 10624
    (26)
    17.3 1.44 10.4 67.3 8.2
    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 An Essay on Man Pope, Alexander 1688 1744 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 46424
    (116)
    19.3 1.37 10.5 71.1 8.1
    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

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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.