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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 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 Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 14000 34572
    (86)
    19.4 1.39 10.3 69.7 8.4
    Details Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann David 1743 1818 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 126097
    (315)
    24.6 1.47 14.0 57.9 11.3
    Details The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 Herodotus Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) 480BC (1852) 420BC (1915) 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 145187
    (362)
    39.5 1.5 20.9 40.1 17.5
    Details The Sea Wolf London, Jack 1876 1916 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 105143
    (262)
    15.0 1.43 9.1 70.8 7.1
    Details Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman Davis, Rebecca Harding 1831 1910 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 14838
    (37)
    13.6 1.38 7.8 76.2 6.0
    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 Silas Marner Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 70159
    (175)
    26.6 1.43 13.8 58.8 11.7
    Details The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) 1634 1693 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 61526
    (153)
    56.6 1.45 26.7 27.1 23.5
    Details Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 81525
    (203)
    21.2 1.34 10.3 71.7 8.5
    Details The Wind in the Willows Grahame, Kenneth 1859 1932 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 17000 57985
    (144)
    18.1 1.41 10.2 69.4 8.1
    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 A Tramp Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 153271
    (383)
    21.7 1.47 12.5 60.1 10.3
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 82500
    (206)
    20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details Greenmantle Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 98151
    (245)
    14.7 1.4 8.6 73.2 6.7
    Details White Fang London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 16000 71789
    (179)
    15.2 1.41 9.4 72.1 7.0
    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 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 Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 71992
    (179)
    33.4 1.51 18.4 45.1 15.3
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 153985
    (384)
    29.6 1.67 18.8 35.7 15.6
    Details A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 408771
    (1021)
    35.2 1.66 21.6 30.6 17.7
    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 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 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 154299
    (385)
    30.7 1.67 19.2 34.8 16.0
    Details Rainbow Valley Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 16000 79562
    (198)
    12.6 1.41 7.9 75.1 5.9
    Details The Gift of the Magi Henry, O. 1862 1910 2000 5000 7000 11000 12000 14000 2038
    (5)
    12.6 1.42 8.1 74.2 6.0
    Details Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas Moore, Clement Clarke 1779 1863 2000 5000 7000 9000 12000 15000 1086
    (2)
    16.0 1.43 9.5 69.6 7.5
    Details The Amateur Cracksman Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William) 1866 1921 2000 4000 8000 9000 12000 16000 51615
    (129)
    13.7 1.41 8.4 73.7 6.4
    Details Venus in Furs Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von Savage, Fernanda 1836 1895 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 41668
    (104)
    14.3 1.49 9.5 66.6 7.5
    Details The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) 1863 1943 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 3926
    (9)
    12.7 1.4 8.0 75.4 5.9
    Details Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Plutarch Stewart, Aubrey 46 (1844) 120 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 184023
    (460)
    32.8 1.53 18.6 44.0 15.3
    Details Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite Molière Page, Curtis Hidden 1622 (1870) 1673 (1946) 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 18000 18064
    (45)
    15.4 1.39 8.7 73.3 6.9
    Details An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 56587
    (141)
    28.1 1.66 18.7 38.1 14.9
    Details Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 9000 12000 17000 37282
    (93)
    11.9 1.44 7.9 73.0 6.0
    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 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Fielding, Henry 1707 1754 2000 4000 8000 10000 12000 18000 348464
    (871)
    30.5 1.5 16.9 48.8 14.0
    Details King Solomon's Mines Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 81742
    (204)
    19.7 1.41 11.1 67.8 8.7
    Details The Island of Doctor Moreau Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 43537
    (108)
    14.7 1.48 9.7 66.5 7.6
    Details Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 84994
    (212)
    19.6 1.45 11.4 64.4 9.1
    Details Allan Quatermain Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 105546
    (263)
    24.1 1.43 13.0 61.5 10.7
    Details Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 37289
    (93)
    15.6 1.47 10.0 67.0 7.8
    Details The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 2000 5000 7000 9000 12000 20000 99922
    (249)
    19.8 1.5 12.3 60.1 9.8
    Details The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40737
    (101)
    15.5 1.41 8.9 71.6 7.1
    Details Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1769 1834 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 20000 484139
    (1210)
    22.4 1.6 15.6 48.9 12.0
    Details The Coming Race Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron 1803 1873 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 52320
    (130)
    29.3 1.56 17.2 45.2 14.2
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 162979
    (407)
    21.7 1.68 15.6 42.9 12.7
    Details Île mystérieuse. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 192750
    (481)
    17.8 1.5 11.8 62.0 9.0
    Details The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, Unknown 2000 4000 6000 11000 12000 15000 33352
    (83)
    8.1 1.35 5.5 84.2 3.5
    Details Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World Cook, James 1728 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 220361
    (550)
    21.2 1.45 12.3 62.8 9.8
    Details Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)
    22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8

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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.