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 | Cyrano De Bergerac | Rostand, Edmond | Thomas, Gladys | 1868 | 1918 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
34576 (86) |
9.7 | 1.45 | 7.4 | 74.4 | 5.3 |
| Details | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Sterne, Laurence | 1713 | 1768 | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
179035 (447) |
43.2 | 1.45 | 21.0 | 40.2 | 18.4 | |
| Details | An Enemy of the People | Ibsen, Henrik | Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) | 1828 (1864) | 1906 (1945) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
30158 (75) |
8.8 | 1.45 | 6.7 | 75.2 | 5.0 |
| Details | The Good Soldier | Ford, Ford Madox | 1873 | 1939 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
74336 (185) |
19.0 | 1.45 | 11.3 | 65.2 | 8.9 | |
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
124102 (310) |
22.4 | 1.45 | 13.2 | 61.6 | 10.2 |
| Details | The Battle of Life A Love Story | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 16000 |
29592 (73) |
14.7 | 1.45 | 9.4 | 69.5 | 7.2 | |
| Details | A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
29348 (73) |
12.3 | 1.45 | 8.4 | 71.7 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure | Stone, A. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56530 (141) |
15.7 | 1.45 | 9.7 | 68.7 | 7.6 | |||
| Details | The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48890 (122) |
17.0 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 66.8 | 8.2 | |
| Details | A Room with a View | Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) | 1879 | 1970 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
65560 (163) |
11.3 | 1.45 | 8.3 | 72.5 | 5.9 | |
| Details | Miss Primrose A Novel | Gilson, Roy Rolfe | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
49888 (124) |
14.8 | 1.45 | 9.1 | 69.2 | 7.3 | |||
| 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 | Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor | Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) | 1821 | 1878 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
87404 (218) |
20.7 | 1.45 | 11.9 | 62.9 | 9.6 | |
| 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 | Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories; Second Series | Nicholson, Meredith | 1866 | 1947 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
117496 (293) |
14.9 | 1.45 | 9.5 | 68.9 | 7.3 | |
| 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 | Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
114891 (287) |
27.9 | 1.46 | 15.0 | 55.4 | 12.5 | |
| Details | 2 B R 0 2 B | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1922 | 2007 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
2501 (6) |
9.4 | 1.46 | 7.5 | 74.1 | 5.3 | |
| 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 | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 23000 |
19258 (48) |
12.3 | 1.46 | 8.2 | 70.8 | 6.4 | |
| 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 | Leaves of Grass | Whitman, Walt | 1819 | 1892 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
120543 (301) |
33.2 | 1.46 | 16.8 | 49.9 | 14.6 | |
| Details | The Brothers Karamazov | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
348671 (871) |
14.5 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 68.9 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Secret Adversary | Christie, Agatha | 1890 | 1976 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
74269 (185) |
9.2 | 1.46 | 7.6 | 73.8 | 5.3 | |
| 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 | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The | Equiano, Olaudah | 1745 | 1797 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
81664 (204) |
29.1 | 1.46 | 15.7 | 53.5 | 13.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Game of Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
13040 (32) |
8.5 | 1.46 | 7.4 | 74.7 | 4.9 | |
| Details | Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The fiddle and the bow, The paradise of fools, Visions | Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love) | 1850 | 1912 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
29397 (73) |
21.5 | 1.46 | 12.3 | 61.5 | 10.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms | Stein, Gertrude | 1874 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
14968 (37) |
15.1 | 1.46 | 9.3 | 68.2 | 7.5 | |
| 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 | 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 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 Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 16000 |
10626 (26) |
11.6 | 1.46 | 8.5 | 71.9 | 6.1 | |
| Details | Our Mutual Friend | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 17000 |
319979 (799) |
15.6 | 1.46 | 10.0 | 67.8 | 7.7 | |
| 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 | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyám | FitzGerald, Edward | 1048 (1809) | 1122 (1883) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
11527 (28) |
18.2 | 1.46 | 11.1 | 64.5 | 8.8 |
| Details | Twenty Years After | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
240798 (601) |
13.6 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 69.5 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
57869 (144) |
16.2 | 1.46 | 10.3 | 67.1 | 7.9 | |
| 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 | Antiquities of the Jews | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
531622 (1329) |
37.5 | 1.46 | 19.8 | 44.8 | 16.3 |
| Details | The Red Badge of Courage | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
45599 (113) |
12.7 | 1.46 | 9.0 | 70.6 | 6.6 | |
| Details | The Career of Katherine Bush | Glyn, Elinor | 1864 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 19000 |
105388 (263) |
17.8 | 1.46 | 11.2 | 65.4 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Carolina Lee | Bell, Lilian | 1867 | 1929 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
73197 (182) |
14.4 | 1.46 | 9.6 | 68.7 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Dir | Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) | 1871 | 1954 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 14000 | 17000 | 21000 |
10808 (27) |
16.3 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 67.1 | 7.9 | |
| Details | The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo | Machen, Arthur | 1725 (1863) | 1798 (1947) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
1251067 (3127) |
20.8 | 1.46 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.7 |
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.