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 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Franklin, Benjamin | 1706 | 1790 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
65762 (164) |
32.0 | 1.54 | 18.0 | 44.5 | 15.0 | |
| Details | Apology | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
16049 (40) |
28.8 | 1.46 | 15.8 | 54.0 | 12.9 |
| 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 | 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 | A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
225521 (563) |
31.6 | 1.65 | 19.8 | 35.3 | 16.2 | |
| 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 | Jane Eyre | Brontë, Charlotte | 1816 | 1855 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
183151 (457) |
18.5 | 1.46 | 11.2 | 64.3 | 8.9 | |
| 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 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 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 | 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 | A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story | Harrison, Carter H. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
66474 (166) |
18.5 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.2 | 9.0 | |||
| 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 | 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 | The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
45835 (114) |
19.7 | 1.67 | 14.9 | 45.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | The Critique of Practical Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill | 1724 (1829) | 1804 (1913) | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
62637 (156) |
50.4 | 1.64 | 27.2 | 16.6 | 23.4 |
| 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 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 | 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 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 | Prufrock and Other Observations | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3812 (9) |
24.3 | 1.44 | 12.9 | 60.7 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Phantom of the Opera | Leroux, Gaston | 1868 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
84224 (210) |
14.8 | 1.44 | 9.6 | 69.6 | 7.2 | |
| 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 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 | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
22287 (55) |
11.7 | 1.47 | 8.3 | 70.5 | 6.3 | |
| 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 | The Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress | Santayana, George | 1863 | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
317310 (793) |
29.2 | 1.72 | 19.8 | 31.8 | 16.1 | |
| Details | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
108599 (271) |
18.5 | 1.3 | 8.7 | 78.1 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 18000 |
23520 (58) |
26.4 | 1.69 | 18.2 | 37.1 | 14.6 |
| 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 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 | 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 |
| Details | Tales of the Jazz Age | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
85222 (213) |
13.4 | 1.49 | 9.3 | 67.4 | 7.2 | |
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.