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 | Andersen's Fairy Tales | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
55132 (137) |
17.7 | 1.36 | 9.6 | 73.4 | 7.4 | |
Details | A Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 | 18000 |
3406 (8) |
50.8 | 1.53 | 25.1 | 25.5 | 22.3 | |
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 | English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- | Long, William J. (William Joseph) | 1867 | 1952 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204834 (512) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.5 | 12.2 | |
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 | 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 | Best Russian Short Stories | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
94443 (236) |
15.3 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 66.6 | 7.8 | ||||
Details | The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
274389 (685) |
30.2 | 1.57 | 17.9 | 43.2 | 14.7 | |
Details | The Antichrist | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) | 1844 (1880) | 1900 (1956) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
32360 (80) |
32.0 | 1.59 | 18.7 | 39.5 | 15.7 |
Details | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
69729 (174) |
14.3 | 1.4 | 8.6 | 74.1 | 6.5 | |
Details | The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
10194 (25) |
7.3 | 1.75 | 11.5 | 51.8 | 7.8 | |
Details | The Masque of the Red Death | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 18000 |
2384 (5) |
23.6 | 1.48 | 14.1 | 57.9 | 11.1 | |
Details | The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic | Newton, Isaac, Sir | 1642 | 1727 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 17000 | 18000 |
69813 (174) |
15.0 | 1.42 | 10.0 | 71.2 | 7.0 | |
Details | How to Tell a Story and Other Essays | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 18000 |
7146 (17) |
21.7 | 1.43 | 12.0 | 64.0 | 9.7 | |
Details | The Rubicon | Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) | 1867 | 1940 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
74278 (185) |
13.8 | 1.45 | 9.1 | 70.2 | 6.9 | |
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 | 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 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 | 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 | Smoke | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich | Garnett, Constance | 1818 (1861) | 1883 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
64820 (162) |
18.1 | 1.52 | 12.2 | 60.0 | 9.4 |
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 | 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 | Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 18000 |
23520 (58) |
26.4 | 1.69 | 18.2 | 37.1 | 14.6 |
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 | The Minute Man of the Frontier | Puddefoot, W. G. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
54821 (137) |
19.3 | 1.43 | 10.7 | 66.1 | 8.8 | |||
Details | Symposium | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32513 (81) |
31.4 | 1.49 | 17.4 | 49.1 | 14.2 |
Details | The Hunting of the Snark | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 15000 | 18000 |
4969 (12) |
22.4 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.2 | 9.6 | |
Details | The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar | Leblanc, Maurice | 1864 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 | 18000 |
53672 (134) |
12.4 | 1.53 | 9.9 | 65.1 | 7.2 | |
Details | The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 | Cooper, James Fenimore | 1789 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
148091 (370) |
24.8 | 1.51 | 14.8 | 54.0 | 11.9 | |
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 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 | 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 | 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 | The Monk; a romance | Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) | 1775 | 1818 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
136838 (342) |
17.3 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 58.1 | 9.5 | |
Details | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
9601 (24) |
15.3 | 1.37 | 8.2 | 75.3 | 6.5 | |
Details | Poetics. English | Aristotle | Bywater, Ingram | 384BC (1840) | 322BC (1914) | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
18459 (46) |
26.1 | 1.54 | 16.2 | 49.9 | 12.8 |
Details | The Wisdom of Father Brown | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
71271 (178) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 9.2 | |
Details | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
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 | Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side | Pickthall, Marmaduke William | (1875) | (1936) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
491525 (1228) |
16.4 | 1.38 | 9.5 | 73.6 | 7.1 | |
Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
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 | How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] | Lehmann, Lilli | Aldrich, Richard | 1848 (1863) | 1929 (1937) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
31812 (79) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.2 | 50.7 | 12.5 |
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 | Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth | Descartes, René | 1596 | 1650 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
23024 (57) |
81.4 | 1.54 | 38.0 | -5.7 | 34.3 | |
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 | 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 |
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.