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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 Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Hooke, Robert 1635 1703 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 147089
    (367)
    48.8 1.46 23.6 33.9 20.7
    Details Middlemarch Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 311801
    (779)
    20.7 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.1
    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 Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) 1859 1924 3000 4000 9000 12000 13000 19000 18024
    (45)
    13.6 1.42 9.1 72.7 6.5
    Details Moby Dick, or, the whale Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 211314
    (528)
    21.5 1.49 12.6 59.4 10.3
    Details Modern Essays Beerbohm, Max, Sir 1872 1956 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 83522
    (208)
    20.8 1.53 13.1 56.3 10.6
    Details Moon and Sixpence Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74760
    (186)
    14.4 1.45 9.3 69.8 7.1
    Details Moral Principles in Education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 10720
    (26)
    22.1 1.69 16.1 41.4 13.0
    Details Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 72871
    (182)
    22.0 1.53 13.8 54.7 11.1
    Details Mr. Spaceship Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 4000 6000 7000 11000 10529
    (26)
    7.7 1.44 6.3 77.2 4.4
    Details Mrs. Warren's Profession Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 2000 4000 9000 11000 12000 17000 34153
    (85)
    12.7 1.47 9.0 69.2 6.8
    Details Music Notation and Terminology Gehrkens, Karl Wilson 1882 1975 3000 5000 10000 15000 17000 23000 40795
    (101)
    13.0 1.66 11.8 53.5 9.0
    Details Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) Engel, Carl 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 71969
    (179)
    19.4 1.67 15.0 45.6 11.7
    Details My Antonia Cather, Willa 1873 1947 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 80807
    (202)
    16.3 1.42 9.4 70.2 7.5
    Details My Bondage and My Freedom Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 131906
    (329)
    23.6 1.51 14.2 54.7 11.5
    Details My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kr Kronheim, Joseph Martin 1810 1896 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 4593
    (11)
    22.7 1.32 10.4 72.5 8.8
    Details My Man Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 5000 8000 12000 19000 50312
    (125)
    10.8 1.4 7.0 77.1 5.2
    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 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 Mystère de la chambre jaune. English Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 2000 4000 9000 10000 11000 19000 73022
    (182)
    15.8 1.5 11.3 63.7 8.3
    Details Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Berens, E.M. 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 104008
    (260)
    23.7 1.62 16.1 45.3 12.8
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)
    21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    Details Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) 1873 1936 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 22000 149754
    (374)
    21.1 1.64 14.9 46.6 12.0
    Details Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 22000 99800
    (249)
    31.1 1.49 16.7 48.9 14.2
    Details Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Rowlandson, Mary White 1635 1710 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 20128
    (50)
    25.9 1.35 12.9 66.1 10.5
    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 Nationalism Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 14000 26616
    (66)
    24.0 1.56 15.2 50.2 12.2
    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 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 New Atlantis Bacon, Francis 1561 1626 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 15693
    (39)
    33.2 1.42 17.1 52.8 14.2
    Details New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in Cotter, John L.Hudson, J. Paul 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 23000 15759
    (39)
    19.1 1.71 15.1 42.4 12.1
    Details New Latin Grammar Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) 1858 1921 7000 12000 20000 22000 23000 25000 63965
    (159)
    5.5 1.84 11.5 45.7 8.3
    Details New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin Various 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 130202
    (325)
    23.1 1.58 15.0 49.8 12.0
    Details Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 317769
    (794)
    19.4 1.49 12.3 61.1 9.6
    Details Night and Day Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 6000 7000 9000 14000 164999
    (412)
    18.4 1.49 11.9 62.0 9.2
    Details Nonsense Books Lear, Edward 1812 1888 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 19000 28733
    (71)
    18.8 1.47 11.3 63.2 9.1
    Details North and South Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810 1865 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 17000 179050
    (447)
    16.8 1.41 10.0 70.3 7.6
    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 Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 169054
    (422)
    17.2 1.52 11.8 60.6 9.1
    Details Notes from the Underground Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 43766
    (109)
    18.1 1.48 11.3 63.5 8.9
    Details Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)
    16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    Details Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary De -Buckelew, Sarah F. (Sarah Frances) 1835 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 24947
    (62)
    12.8 1.38 7.9 76.9 5.7
    Details Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No Sophocles Murray, Gilbert 495BC (1866) 406BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 23000 17732
    (44)
    9.6 1.35 6.9 82.5 4.1
    Details Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles Storr, Francis 495BC (1839) 406BC (1919) 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 24000 37158
    (92)
    14.7 1.38 8.9 75.1 6.4
    Details Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 258577
    (646)
    15.5 1.42 9.6 70.9 7.2
    Details Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War Saussure, Mrs. N. B. de 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 16693
    (41)
    22.3 1.47 13.0 59.5 10.5
    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 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 Omens and Superstitions of Southern India Thurston, Edgar 1855 1935 3000 5000 10000 13000 16000 23000 93609
    (234)
    21.1 1.55 13.6 54.1 10.9
    Details Omnilingual Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 16172
    (40)
    14.5 1.52 10.4 63.4 8.0

    Notes:

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    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.
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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.