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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 Garden Party and Other Stories Mansfield, Katherine 1888 1923 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 56598
    (141)
    10.5 1.39 6.6 78.9 4.9
    Details Very Short Stories and Verses For Children Clifford, W. K., Mrs. 1929 1000 2000 6000 8000 11000 16000 14400
    (36)
    16.8 1.3 7.9 79.9 6.3
    Details A Short History of the World Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 111386
    (278)
    20.1 1.68 15.2 44.4 12.1
    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 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 Uncle Vanya Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860 1904 2000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 16391
    (40)
    8.8 1.44 7.1 76.2 4.8
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 92171
    (230)
    28.4 1.6 17.7 43.0 14.3
    Details Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822 1885 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 276868
    (692)
    20.5 1.55 13.9 54.7 10.7
    Details Political Ideals Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 22188
    (55)
    25.4 1.64 16.9 42.1 13.7
    Details McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition Mc 1800 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 7379
    (18)
    10.1 1.27 5.3 89.4 3.3
    Details The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses Wellman, Francis L. 2000 3000 6000 8000 9000 15000 53685
    (134)
    14.8 1.56 11.1 60.0 8.6
    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 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 Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection Casteel, D. B. 4000 7000 8000 12000 19000 20000 12517
    (31)
    21.6 1.57 13.5 52.3 11.3
    Details Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 104617
    (261)
    11.9 1.54 9.6 64.9 7.2
    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 The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Cole, Fay-Cooper 1881 1961 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 96647
    (241)
    18.5 1.52 12.1 59.4 9.6
    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 Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut Anonymous 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 22000 132745
    (331)
    17.9 1.72 15.0 42.8 11.7
    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 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 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 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 Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover Anonymous 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 32078
    (80)
    36.5 1.52 19.6 41.2 16.6
    Details Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 31960
    (79)
    25.1 1.38 12.6 64.2 10.5
    Details The Elements of Style Strunk, William 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 13203
    (33)
    15.7 1.65 13.1 51.3 10.0
    Details Poems Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865 1939 3000 5000 9000 11000 13000 22000 36280
    (90)
    20.6 1.34 10.0 72.5 8.3
    Details Little Jeanne of France Brandeis, Madeline 1897 1937 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 17000 15537
    (38)
    10.6 1.39 6.4 78.6 4.9
    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 The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 115618
    (289)
    16.4 1.49 11.1 64.4 8.4
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 8575
    (21)
    17.3 1.3 8.5 79.1 6.5
    Details Grimm's Fairy Stories Grimm, Wilhelm 1786 1859 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 50632
    (126)
    23.0 1.31 11.1 72.8 8.8
    Details Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 120454
    (301)
    22.9 1.52 14.4 55.1 11.3
    Details Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Craven, Wesley Frank 1905 1981 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 20141
    (50)
    29.4 1.67 19.4 36.0 15.5
    Details An Imperial Marriage Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 21000 94091
    (235)
    14.1 1.4 8.7 73.9 6.5
    Details The Royal Picture Alphabet Leighton, John 1822 1912 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 5109
    (12)
    17.3 1.49 11.1 63.1 8.7
    Details On Liberty Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 51737
    (129)
    35.8 1.64 21.3 31.8 17.7
    Details The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 3000 4000 8000 9000 10000 17000 59403
    (148)
    24.7 1.63 17.1 43.9 13.3
    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 Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 134869
    (337)
    23.7 1.73 17.5 36.1 14.1
    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 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Spenser, Edmund 1552 1599 4000 7000 12000 15000 20000 24000 70160
    (175)
    17.3 1.43 10.4 68.1 8.1
    Details The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 20000 83847
    (209)
    23.1 1.53 14.2 53.8 11.5
    Details Piper in the Woods Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 9000 14000 7221
    (18)
    7.9 1.41 6.3 79.3 4.2
    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 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 77252
    (193)
    18.8 1.58 13.2 53.7 10.5
    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

    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.
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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.