This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 | The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic | Newton, Isaac, Sir | 1642 | 1727 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 17000 | 18000 |
69813 (174) |
15.0 | 1.42 | 10.0 | 71.2 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy | James, William | 1842 | 1910 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
99183 (247) |
24.2 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 47.2 | 12.7 | |
| Details | Nationalism | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
26616 (66) |
24.0 | 1.56 | 15.2 | 50.2 | 12.2 | |
| Details | On the Trail of The Immigrant | Steiner, Edward A. | 1866 | 1856 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
87463 (218) |
28.2 | 1.54 | 16.4 | 47.9 | 13.6 | |
| Details | The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat | Celnart, Elisabeth | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
45211 (113) |
26.3 | 1.56 | 16.2 | 48.0 | 13.1 | |||
| Details | The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
158602 (396) |
15.8 | 1.48 | 10.1 | 66.0 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot | Craig, Austin | 1872 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
62400 (156) |
29.6 | 1.64 | 18.6 | 38.3 | 15.3 | ||
| Details | A Child's Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
8785 (21) |
23.1 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 68.7 | 9.4 | |
| Details | The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes | Henry VIII, King of England | 1491 | 1547 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
5585 (13) |
22.3 | 1.42 | 12.3 | 64.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study | Martin, Everett Dean | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70365 (175) |
18.9 | 1.69 | 14.8 | 44.7 | 11.7 | |||
| 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 | Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
64184 (160) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.8 | 54.0 | 11.0 | |
| 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 | Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) | 1851 | 1935 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
165374 (413) |
21.2 | 1.53 | 13.7 | 56.2 | 10.7 | |
| Details | The Invention of Lithography | Senefelder, Alois | Muller, J. W. | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
87110 (217) |
24.2 | 1.54 | 14.5 | 52.3 | 12.0 | ||
| Details | The Secret Agent a Simple Tale | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
88831 (222) |
14.6 | 1.54 | 11.0 | 61.4 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 | Perrault, Charles | Welsh, Charles | 1628 (1850) | 1703 (1914) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
18345 (45) |
23.2 | 1.36 | 11.8 | 67.9 | 9.6 |
| 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 | Amerigo Vespucci | Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) | 1849 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
55391 (138) |
29.6 | 1.56 | 17.8 | 45.1 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Affair at the Inn | Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith | 1856 | 1923 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33539 (83) |
18.1 | 1.46 | 10.9 | 64.8 | 8.7 | |
| Details | Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
92171 (230) |
28.4 | 1.6 | 17.7 | 43.0 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa | New York Central Railroad Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
48248 (120) |
14.7 | 1.63 | 12.4 | 53.8 | 9.4 | |||
| 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 | Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
31960 (79) |
25.1 | 1.38 | 12.6 | 64.2 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
13203 (33) |
15.7 | 1.65 | 13.1 | 51.3 | 10.0 | |||
| 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 | Smoke | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich | Garnett, Constance | 1818 (1861) | 1883 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
64820 (162) |
18.1 | 1.52 | 12.2 | 60.0 | 9.4 |
| Details | Little Dorrit | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
332182 (830) |
18.1 | 1.47 | 11.2 | 64.5 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G | Boswell, James | 1740 | 1795 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
214740 (536) |
20.2 | 1.52 | 12.9 | 57.9 | 10.2 | |
| Details | Women in Love | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) | 1885 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
179224 (448) |
11.2 | 1.45 | 8.1 | 72.8 | 5.9 | |
| Details | Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples | Brown, Frank Chouteau | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
20014 (50) |
10.1 | 1.75 | 11.9 | 48.1 | 9.1 | |||
| Details | A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis | Freud, Sigmund | Hall, G. Stanley | 1856 (1846) | 1939 (1924) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
155848 (389) |
24.6 | 1.65 | 16.9 | 42.3 | 13.5 |
| Details | The Personality of American Cities | Hungerford, Edward | 1875 | 1948 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
105425 (263) |
21.1 | 1.51 | 12.8 | 57.8 | 10.4 | |
| 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 | Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad | Fea, Allan | 1860 | 1956 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 19000 |
33872 (84) |
31.2 | 1.58 | 17.8 | 41.2 | 15.3 | |
| Details | The Adventures of Sally | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
76500 (191) |
12.1 | 1.46 | 8.5 | 70.8 | 6.4 | |
| Details | Famous Modern Ghost Stories | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
93775 (234) |
15.7 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 67.6 | 7.7 | ||||
| Details | Nature | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
15310 (38) |
19.0 | 1.52 | 12.8 | 58.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Psmith, Journalist | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
56439 (141) |
11.2 | 1.46 | 8.2 | 71.9 | 6.0 | |
| Details | The Bontoc Igorot | Jenks, Albert Ernest | 1869 | 1953 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 19000 |
103603 (259) |
22.1 | 1.53 | 13.3 | 55.2 | 11.0 | |
| Details | American Fairy Tales | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
31719 (79) |
16.3 | 1.41 | 9.7 | 70.6 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Walking | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
12032 (30) |
24.9 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 56.1 | 11.6 | |
| Details | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) | Burke, Edmund | 1729 | 1797 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
152778 (381) |
27.5 | 1.58 | 17.3 | 44.9 | 13.8 | |
| Details | Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' | Scott, Charles A. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
13160 (32) |
6.6 | 1.39 | 5.1 | 82.1 | 3.4 | |||
| Details | Rilla of Ingleside | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
101158 (252) |
15.1 | 1.42 | 9.0 | 71.5 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| Details | Etiquette | Post, Emily | 1873 | 1960 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
200614 (501) |
23.2 | 1.51 | 13.7 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |
| 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 Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter | Aesop | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
27122 (67) |
15.7 | 1.33 | 8.5 | 78.2 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims | La Rochefoucauld, François duc de | Willis Bund, J. W. (John William) | 1613 (1843) | 1680 (1928) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
34123 (85) |
16.4 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 61.2 | 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.