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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 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 Ossian in Germany Bibliography, General Survey, Ossian's Influence upon Klopstoc Tombo, Rudolf 1875 1914 3000 7000 11000 15000 16000 23000 48589
    (121)
    5.9 1.7 9.7 56.9 6.8
    Details The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)
    30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details The Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration; with Observations on Wilson, Thomas 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 22000 94225
    (235)
    9.4 1.66 10.9 57.1 7.6
    Details Orthodoxy Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 63665
    (159)
    20.1 1.53 13.0 57.2 10.3
    Details Triplanetary Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) 1890 1965 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 20000 56328
    (140)
    17.4 1.56 12.1 57.2 9.6
    Details The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 187931
    (469)
    24.6 1.47 14.0 57.4 11.4
    Details Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 6000 7000 11000 15000 15145
    (37)
    23.0 1.49 13.8 57.4 11.0
    Details The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 86554
    (216)
    26.2 1.45 14.5 57.4 11.8
    Details The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec Aristotle 384BC 322BC 3000 6000 10000 15000 18000 23000 107312
    (268)
    26.1 1.45 14.5 57.5 11.7
    Details Warlord of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56940
    (142)
    26.0 1.45 13.9 57.5 11.7
    Details Persuasion Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 82646
    (206)
    22.7 1.49 13.7 57.7 10.9
    Details The Grand Inquisitor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) 1821 (1831) 1881 (1891) 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 15000 9588
    (23)
    25.6 1.46 14.5 57.7 11.6
    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 Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska Gillis, Charles J. 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 10605
    (26)
    21.6 1.5 13.0 57.8 10.6
    Details The Masque of the Red Death Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 14000 18000 2384
    (5)
    23.6 1.48 14.1 57.9 11.1
    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 Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann David 1743 1818 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 126097
    (315)
    24.6 1.47 14.0 57.9 11.3
    Details Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)
    22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8
    Details Mertvye dushi. English Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Hogarth, D. J. 1809 1852 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 140991
    (352)
    20.0 1.52 12.8 58.0 10.1
    Details How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so Williams, Archibald 1871 1934 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 70756
    (176)
    16.5 1.56 11.6 58.0 9.3
    Details The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 768172
    (1920)
    21.8 1.5 13.4 58.0 10.6
    Details Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 16000 119679
    (299)
    19.8 1.52 13.0 58.1 10.1
    Details The Monk; a romance Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) 1775 1818 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 136838
    (342)
    17.3 1.55 12.7 58.1 9.5
    Details On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Carlyle, Thomas 1795 1881 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 87919
    (219)
    22.6 1.49 13.4 58.1 10.8
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 137832
    (344)
    21.9 1.49 13.5 58.2 10.6
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)
    21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)
    18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    Details Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 76450
    (191)
    21.1 1.5 13.2 58.4 10.4
    Details The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 127415
    (318)
    21.9 1.49 13.1 58.4 10.5
    Details Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary Col Campbell, Douglas Houghton 1859 1953 4000 7000 13000 18000 21000 24000 68439
    (171)
    10.5 1.63 10.1 58.4 7.7
    Details The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Mc 3000 3000 6000 8000 10000 18000 63686
    (159)
    20.7 1.51 13.1 58.4 10.3
    Details The Innocents Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 190987
    (477)
    21.8 1.49 13.0 58.5 10.5
    Details Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Hands, A. F. Morris 4000 6000 9000 13000 19000 22000 5892
    (14)
    16.3 1.56 11.6 58.6 9.1
    Details A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Cutter, Calvin 1807 1872 4000 6000 11000 15000 19000 24000 134981
    (337)
    10.9 1.62 10.9 58.6 7.8
    Details The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio 3000 4000 8000 12000 17000 22000 97942
    (244)
    20.5 1.5 13.2 58.7 10.2
    Details My Reminiscences Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 22000 60224
    (150)
    20.0 1.51 12.6 58.7 10.1
    Details Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thomas, Aquinas, Saint 1225 1274 3000 4000 6000 11000 13000 20000 486564
    (1216)
    17.0 1.55 12.7 58.7 9.3
    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 Silas Marner Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 70159
    (175)
    26.6 1.43 13.8 58.8 11.7
    Details Ponce de Leon The Rise of the Argentine Republic Pilling, William 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 20000 209446
    (523)
    22.0 1.49 13.4 58.8 10.5
    Details Emile Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 14000 251868
    (629)
    25.8 1.44 14.1 58.8 11.5
    Details Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais, François Urquhart, Thomas, Sir 1483 (1611) 1553 (1660) 4000 7000 12000 16000 20000 24000 317921
    (794)
    21.5 1.49 13.0 58.9 10.4
    Details The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)
    17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    Details The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Cody, Sherwin 1868 1959 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 59114
    (147)
    18.7 1.52 12.4 59.0 9.7
    Details The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne 1820 1849 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 166923
    (417)
    23.0 1.47 13.2 59.0 10.8
    Details Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811 1863 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 298755
    (746)
    22.3 1.48 13.0 59.0 10.6
    Details Mansfield Park Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 157622
    (394)
    22.6 1.48 13.3 59.1 10.6
    Details The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 23000 58153
    (145)
    21.3 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.3
    Details Ethica. English Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632 1677 3000 4000 6000 9000 13000 17000 87693
    (219)
    16.0 1.56 12.4 59.1 9.0

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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.