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 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 Book of Household Management | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
488058 (1220) |
15.8 | 1.5 | 10.5 | 63.9 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm | Grimm, Wilhelm | Crane, Lucy | 1786 (1842) | 1859 (1882) | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
88523 (221) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.5 | 75.7 | 8.2 |
| Details | Ramayana. English | Valmiki | Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) | (1826) | (1906) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
394725 (986) |
19.0 | 1.38 | 10.5 | 70.4 | 8.1 |
| Details | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Oliver Twist | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 17000 |
156033 (390) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 66.5 | 8.2 | |
| Details | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) | 1859 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
66360 (165) |
19.8 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.4 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 |
991 (2) |
17.1 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 63.7 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 | Boy Scouts of America | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
122326 (305) |
15.9 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 64.8 | 8.2 | |||
| Details | Wuthering Heights | Brontë, Emily | 1818 | 1848 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
114539 (286) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 65.8 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Amusements in Mathematics | Dudeney, Henry Ernest | 1857 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
146902 (367) |
15.8 | 1.48 | 10.6 | 65.5 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier | Dreyfus, Suelette | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
151211 (378) |
13.5 | 1.58 | 10.6 | 59.2 | 8.4 | |||
| 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 Iron Heel | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
87324 (218) |
14.4 | 1.52 | 10.6 | 63.5 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Pascal's Pensées | Pascal, Blaise | 1623 | 1662 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
105254 (263) |
14.7 | 1.47 | 10.6 | 67.6 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
93989 (234) |
16.5 | 1.48 | 10.6 | 65.0 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Voyage au centre de la terre. English | Verne, Jules | Malleson, Frederick Amadeus | 1828 (1819) | 1905 (1897) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
73544 (183) |
14.7 | 1.51 | 10.6 | 63.9 | 8.0 |
| Details | Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 | Cole, E. W. (Edward William) | 1832 | 1918 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
141555 (353) |
20.6 | 1.38 | 10.6 | 68.8 | 8.8 | |
| Details | The Yellow Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew | 1844 | 1912 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
111039 (277) |
21.0 | 1.33 | 10.6 | 73.2 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Three Musketeers | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
227889 (569) |
14.7 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 7.6 | |
| Details | David Copperfield | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
349774 (874) |
17.7 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.4 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Steam, Its Generation and Use | Babcock & Wilcox Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 20000 |
120558 (301) |
9.8 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 56.0 | 7.9 | |||
| Details | Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 12000 |
1073 (2) |
20.2 | 1.37 | 10.7 | 70.8 | 8.4 | |
| Details | The Minute Man of the Frontier | Puddefoot, W. G. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
54821 (137) |
19.3 | 1.43 | 10.7 | 66.1 | 8.8 | |||
| Details | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | Unknown | Ingram, J. H. (James Henry) | (1774) | (1850) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
93358 (233) |
16.3 | 1.46 | 10.7 | 67.2 | 7.9 |
| Details | Four Arthurian Romances | Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. | Comfort, William Wistar | (1874) | (1955) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
189648 (474) |
20.4 | 1.34 | 10.7 | 72.4 | 8.2 |
| Details | The Chessmen of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
87139 (217) |
17.6 | 1.44 | 10.7 | 67.4 | 8.2 | |
| Details | Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation | Thomssen, E. G. | 4000 | 7000 | 14000 | 17000 | 18000 | 22000 |
59096 (147) |
9.9 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 55.9 | 7.9 | |||
| Details | Handbook of Embroidery | Higgin, L. | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
14622 (36) |
14.0 | 1.57 | 10.7 | 59.9 | 8.4 | |||
| Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
| Details | The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | Garnett, Constance | 1860 (1861) | 1904 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
71033 (177) |
17.1 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 8.2 |
| Details | The Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph | Belloc, Hilaire | 1864 (1870) | 1938 (1953) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
25763 (64) |
23.0 | 1.28 | 10.7 | 75.3 | 8.5 |
| Details | An Elementary Study of Insects | Haseman, Leonard | 1884 | 1969 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
17942 (44) |
17.6 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.5 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Garnett, Constance | 1828 (1861) | 1910 (1946) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
348306 (870) |
16.8 | 1.46 | 10.8 | 66.2 | 8.2 |
| Details | Great Expectations | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
183813 (459) |
18.8 | 1.42 | 10.8 | 67.3 | 8.5 | |
| Details | Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
185220 (463) |
19.5 | 1.41 | 10.8 | 68.0 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Latin for Beginners | D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) | 1860 | 1940 | 7000 | 13000 | 20000 | 22000 | 23000 | 24000 |
91186 (227) |
8.2 | 1.74 | 10.8 | 51.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Time Machine | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32111 (80) |
16.8 | 1.5 | 10.8 | 62.6 | 8.7 | |
| Details | Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) | -Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse) | 1876 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 | 20000 |
27844 (69) |
15.4 | 1.53 | 10.8 | 61.4 | 8.5 | ||
| 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 | This Side of Paradise | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
79512 (198) |
14.9 | 1.52 | 10.8 | 63.0 | 8.2 | |
| Details | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
114027 (285) |
17.3 | 1.47 | 10.8 | 65.1 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Adventure of the Devil's Foot | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
9893 (24) |
16.6 | 1.48 | 10.8 | 64.8 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Erotica Romana | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | 1749 | 1832 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 24000 |
6681 (16) |
16.7 | 1.48 | 10.8 | 64.5 | 8.4 | |
| 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 | |||
| Details | Les Misérables | Hugo, Victor | Hapgood, Isabel Florence | 1802 (1850) | 1885 (1928) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
562958 (1407) |
15.6 | 1.5 | 10.9 | 64.1 | 8.2 |
| 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 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 | Black Beauty | Sewell, Anna | 1820 | 1878 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
59721 (149) |
23.5 | 1.31 | 10.9 | 72.5 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | |
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.