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 | Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
37289 (93) |
15.6 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
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 | Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O | Zerbe, James Slough | 1850 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
37590 (93) |
11.4 | 1.51 | 9.2 | 67.5 | 6.7 | ||
Details | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
Details | Phaedrus | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
38099 (95) |
30.0 | 1.5 | 16.9 | 49.6 | 13.8 |
Details | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 1265 (1807) | 1321 (1882) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
38252 (95) |
26.1 | 1.4 | 13.6 | 62.1 | 11.1 |
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 | Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The | Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' | Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) | 1723 (1771) | 1789 (1797) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
39094 (97) |
21.4 | 1.64 | 15.8 | 46.2 | 12.1 |
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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 17000 |
39505 (98) |
17.4 | 1.33 | 9.3 | 76.3 | 6.9 | |
Details | British Castles | Ashdown, Charles H. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
39601 (99) |
25.6 | 1.66 | 17.2 | 40.7 | 14.0 | |||
Details | Adventures of Pinocchio | Collodi, Carlo | Della Chiesa, Carol | 1826 (1887) | 1890 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 |
39730 (99) |
12.2 | 1.37 | 7.5 | 78.3 | 5.4 |
Details | Turner | Monkhouse, William Cosmo | 1840 | 1901 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39762 (99) |
26.3 | 1.52 | 15.5 | 51.2 | 12.7 | |
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 | The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form | Hibberd, Shirley | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
40114 (100) |
17.5 | 1.59 | 12.8 | 54.9 | 10.0 | |||
Details | Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti | Henry, Henry A. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
40370 (100) |
27.5 | 1.59 | 17.7 | 44.1 | 13.9 | |||
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 | Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship | Jack, George | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
40537 (101) |
22.7 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 51.9 | 11.7 | |||
Details | Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 | 18000 |
40617 (101) |
25.5 | 1.84 | 20.0 | 25.3 | 16.1 |
Details | The Child's Day | Hutchinson, Woods | 1862 | 1930 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 |
40704 (101) |
18.9 | 1.3 | 9.3 | 78.1 | 7.1 | |
Details | The Thirty-Nine Steps | Buchan, John | 1875 | 1940 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
40737 (101) |
15.5 | 1.41 | 8.9 | 71.6 | 7.1 | |
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 | Music Notation and Terminology | Gehrkens, Karl Wilson | 1882 | 1975 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
40795 (101) |
13.0 | 1.66 | 11.8 | 53.5 | 9.0 | |
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 Mysterious Stranger | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
41011 (102) |
19.2 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.8 | 8.3 | |
Details | The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a | Trusler, John | 1735 | 1820 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
41272 (103) |
26.5 | 1.58 | 16.4 | 46.4 | 13.4 | |
Details | Palmistry for All | Cheiro | 1866 | 1936 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 21000 |
41356 (103) |
28.5 | 1.51 | 16.3 | 50.3 | 13.3 | |
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 | Textiles and Clothing | Watson, Kate Heintz | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
41633 (104) |
17.9 | 1.52 | 11.6 | 59.8 | 9.4 | |||
Details | Venus in Furs | Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von | Savage, Fernanda | 1836 | 1895 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
41668 (104) |
14.3 | 1.49 | 9.5 | 66.6 | 7.5 |
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 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 | 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 | The Problems of Philosophy | Russell, Bertrand | 1872 | 1970 | 2000 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 15000 |
42186 (105) |
27.3 | 1.56 | 16.8 | 47.2 | 13.5 | |
Details | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) | 480 (1862) | 525 (1931) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
42189 (105) |
19.5 | 1.47 | 12.3 | 62.6 | 9.4 |
Details | True Bear Stories | Miller, Joaquin | 1837 | 1913 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 19000 |
42215 (105) |
21.2 | 1.4 | 11.4 | 66.9 | 9.2 | |
Details | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Boylan, R. Dillon | 1749 | 1832 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
42359 (105) |
17.7 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.4 | 8.8 |
Details | The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affectin | Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James) | 1881 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
42645 (106) |
9.4 | 1.6 | 9.7 | 62.1 | 6.9 | |
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 | Phaedo | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 16000 |
42694 (106) |
26.6 | 1.46 | 15.2 | 56.0 | 12.1 |
Details | The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book | 7000 | 16000 | 20000 | 22000 | 24000 | 25000 |
42736 (106) |
7.5 | 1.68 | 9.8 | 56.9 | 7.2 | ||||
Details | The Sign of the Four | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42939 (107) |
14.7 | 1.42 | 9.0 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
Details | Utopia | More, Thomas, Sir, Saint | 1478 | 1535 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
43401 (108) |
55.4 | 1.43 | 26.2 | 29.7 | 22.9 | |
Details | The Island of Doctor Moreau | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
43537 (108) |
14.7 | 1.48 | 9.7 | 66.5 | 7.6 | |
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 | Notes from the Underground | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
43766 (109) |
18.1 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.5 | 8.9 | |
Details | Line and Form (1900) | Crane, Walter | 1845 | 1915 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
44073 (110) |
32.9 | 1.64 | 19.6 | 34.8 | 16.6 | |
Details | In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius | 1469 | 1536 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
44403 (111) |
48.2 | 1.52 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 21.1 | |
Details | The American Frugal Housewife | Child, Lydia Maria | 1802 | 1880 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
44452 (111) |
18.4 | 1.42 | 10.5 | 68.1 | 8.3 | |
Details | The Invention of the Sewing Machine | Cooper, Grace Rogers | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
44774 (111) |
10.5 | 1.71 | 10.8 | 51.1 | 8.8 |
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.