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 | The Wendigo | Blackwood, Algernon | 1869 | 1951 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
18159 (45) |
21.0 | 1.49 | 12.9 | 59.1 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | Poems | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 19000 | 22000 |
6546 (16) |
21.2 | 1.49 | 12.5 | 59.2 | 10.3 | |
| 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 | A Little Book of Filipino Riddles | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 24000 |
15684 (39) |
8.6 | 1.64 | 8.8 | 59.3 | 7.1 | ||||
| Details | Sketches New and Old | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
96722 (241) |
21.2 | 1.49 | 12.8 | 59.3 | 10.3 | |
| 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 | 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 | John Deere's Steel Plow | Kendall, Edward C. | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
5509 (13) |
17.7 | 1.53 | 12.1 | 59.4 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | The Art of War | Sunzi | Giles, Lionel | (1875) | (1958) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
52452 (131) |
18.1 | 1.52 | 12.6 | 59.5 | 9.5 |
| 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 | A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Sedgwick, Anne Douglas | 1873 | 1935 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
27814 (69) |
22.9 | 1.47 | 12.8 | 59.5 | 10.7 | |
| 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 | The Art of Modern Lace Making | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
17344 (43) |
16.0 | 1.55 | 11.2 | 59.5 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 | Yule, Henry, Sir | (1820) | (1889) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
313144 (782) |
16.0 | 1.55 | 11.7 | 59.5 | 8.9 | |
| Details | Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable | Bulfinch, Thomas | 1796 | 1867 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 24000 |
145570 (363) |
21.7 | 1.48 | 13.2 | 59.5 | 10.4 | |
| Details | Meno | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 16000 |
22147 (55) |
19.6 | 1.5 | 12.8 | 59.8 | 9.8 |
| Details | Textiles and Clothing | Watson, Kate Heintz | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
41633 (104) |
17.9 | 1.52 | 11.6 | 59.8 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
58756 (146) |
19.8 | 1.5 | 12.5 | 59.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 188 | Burroughs, Barkham | 1952 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
147356 (368) |
19.3 | 1.51 | 12.1 | 59.8 | 9.7 | ||
| Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 25000 |
123549 (308) |
20.1 | 1.5 | 12.7 | 59.9 | 9.9 |
| Details | Handbook of Embroidery | Higgin, L. | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
14622 (36) |
14.0 | 1.57 | 10.7 | 59.9 | 8.4 | |||
| 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 | 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 | The Story of Our Submarines | Bower, John Graham | 1886 | 1940 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 |
52976 (132) |
19.2 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 60.0 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Following the Equator | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184337 (460) |
20.0 | 1.5 | 12.4 | 60.0 | 9.9 | |
| Details | Essays — First Series | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
74343 (185) |
20.7 | 1.49 | 13.0 | 60.1 | 10.0 | |
| 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 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 | 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 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 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
994 (2) |
16.3 | 1.54 | 11.0 | 60.2 | 8.9 | |
| Details | The Social Cancer | Rizal, José | Derbyshire, Charles E. | 1861 | 1896 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
173896 (434) |
17.9 | 1.52 | 12.1 | 60.3 | 9.3 |
| 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 | The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84282 (210) |
22.3 | 1.46 | 12.9 | 60.3 | 10.4 | ||||
| Details | Metamorphosis | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
21986 (54) |
28.3 | 1.39 | 14.3 | 60.4 | 11.9 |
| Details | English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a ne | Kirkham, Samuel | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
91181 (227) |
13.9 | 1.56 | 11.3 | 60.4 | 8.3 | |||
| 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 | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
27904 (69) |
19.4 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 60.6 | 9.6 | |
| 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 | 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 | In the Year 2889 | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 |
5492 (13) |
13.1 | 1.57 | 11.0 | 60.7 | 8.0 | |
| Details | First Lessons in Geography Or, Introduction to Youth's Manual of Geography | Monteith, James | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 17000 |
5269 (13) |
3.1 | 1.69 | 7.6 | 60.8 | 5.5 | |||
| Details | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome | 121 | 180 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
71538 (178) |
21.0 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 60.9 | 10.0 | |
| Details | How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | Bennett, Arnold | 1867 | 1931 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
12746 (31) |
17.8 | 1.51 | 11.7 | 61.0 | 9.2 | |
| Details | Emma | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
155516 (388) |
20.8 | 1.47 | 12.4 | 61.1 | 9.9 | |
| Details | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| 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 | Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 24000 |
70188 (175) |
20.5 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 61.1 | 9.8 | ||||
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.