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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 Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine 1870 1922 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 107279
    (268)
    16.5 1.47 10.2 66.1 8.1
    Details The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 4000 6000 6000 8000 9000 1158
    (2)
    16.5 1.51 10.3 62.5 8.7
    Details Life Is a Dream Calderón de la Barca, Pedro FitzGerald, Edward 1600 (1809) 1681 (1883) 3000 5000 9000 13000 16000 19000 17220
    (43)
    16.5 1.38 9.4 73.3 7.1
    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 Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    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 Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave Aveling, Eleanor Marx 1821 (1855) 1880 (1898) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 115415
    (288)
    16.6 1.45 10.4 66.9 8.1
    Details Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26275
    (65)
    16.6 1.36 8.7 75.1 6.9
    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 The jungle book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 51432
    (128)
    16.6 1.34 8.4 76.7 6.7
    Details Bleak House Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 347904
    (869)
    16.7 1.45 10.3 67.2 8.0
    Details The Adventure of the Cardboard Box Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 8609
    (21)
    16.7 1.41 9.7 70.6 7.6
    Details The Door in the Wall and Other Stories Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 42660
    (106)
    16.7 1.43 9.8 69.0 7.8
    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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 169040
    (422)
    16.7 1.66 13.4 49.8 10.5
    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 Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)
    16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    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 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 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 The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 175708
    (439)
    16.8 1.62 12.6 53.1 10.0
    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 The Turn of the Screw James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 14000 41719
    (104)
    16.9 1.43 10.2 69.1 7.8
    Details Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Maupassant, Guy de 1850 1893 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 489213
    (1223)
    16.9 1.45 10.5 67.2 8.1
    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 People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi Pierce, Ray Vaughn 1840 1914 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 21000 381700
    (954)
    16.9 1.71 14.4 45.3 11.1
    Details The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) Duncker, Max Abbott, Evelyn 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 22000 140000
    (350)
    16.9 1.57 12.8 56.8 9.5
    Details The Art of Politicks Bramston, James 1694 1744 4000 8000 12000 17000 20000 24000 10432
    (26)
    16.9 1.68 13.6 47.7 10.8
    Details Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 62632
    (156)
    17.0 1.53 11.9 60.3 9.1
    Details Poor Folk in Spain Gordon, Cora 1879 1950 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 79151
    (197)
    17.0 1.49 11.1 63.4 8.6
    Details Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 2000 4000 8000 10000 12000 19000 127361
    (318)
    17.0 1.45 10.4 67.2 8.1
    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 On the Sublime Longinus, 1st cent. Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) (1913) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 28948
    (72)
    17.0 1.6 13.0 54.3 9.9
    Details The Lost World Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 75381
    (188)
    17.0 1.47 10.9 65.2 8.4
    Details Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and prep Rose, Joshua 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 63754
    (159)
    17.0 1.53 11.8 60.1 9.1
    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 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 The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy, Leo, graf Tucker, Benjamin R. 1828 1910 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 63962
    (159)
    17.1 1.47 11.0 65.1 8.4
    Details The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827 1915 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 241259
    (603)
    17.1 1.53 12.3 60.2 9.1
    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 A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 96732
    (241)
    17.1 1.41 10.0 70.0 7.7
    Details Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Burns, Robert 1759 1796 6000 9000 17000 22000 24000 25000 125988
    (314)
    17.1 1.38 8.6 73.1 7.3
    Details Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 180196
    (450)
    17.2 1.42 10.1 69.0 7.9
    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 Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews United States. Work Projects Administration 2000 6000 9000 15000 20000 22000 126940
    (317)
    17.2 1.35 8.8 75.6 7.0
    Details The Art of Public Speaking Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) 1867 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 154880
    (387)
    17.2 1.54 12.1 59.1 9.3
    Details A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 134550
    (336)
    17.3 1.44 10.5 67.2 8.2
    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 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

    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.