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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 Possessed (The Devils) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 252520
    (631)
    15.5 1.5 10.9 64.3 8.1
    Details Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)
    16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    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 Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 10000 15000 18000 24000 102277
    (255)
    15.2 1.52 10.9 62.5 8.3
    Details The Diva's Ruby Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 115276
    (288)
    18.3 1.42 10.9 67.9 8.3
    Details A Watcher in The Woods Sharp, Dallas Lore 1870 1929 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 30932
    (77)
    20.5 1.42 10.9 65.8 9.2
    Details The Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration; with Observations on Wilson, Thomas 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 22000 94225
    (235)
    9.4 1.66 10.9 57.1 7.6
    Details Japanese Fairy Tales Ozaki, Yei Theodora 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 70489
    (176)
    20.6 1.36 10.9 70.7 8.5
    Details The Innocence of Father Brown Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 18000 78581
    (196)
    17.7 1.46 10.9 65.5 8.5
    Details The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5
    Details The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88831
    (222)
    14.6 1.54 11.0 61.4 8.3
    Details South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir 1874 1922 2000 4000 8000 10000 14000 17000 144681
    (361)
    17.8 1.47 11.0 64.4 8.7
    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 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 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 52382
    (130)
    19.1 1.41 11.0 67.9 8.5
    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 Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 147161
    (367)
    18.3 1.45 11.1 65.7 8.6
    Details The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 59603
    (149)
    18.2 1.49 11.1 62.4 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 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 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 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 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 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyám FitzGerald, Edward 1048 (1809) 1122 (1883) 4000 6000 10000 14000 17000 23000 11527
    (28)
    18.2 1.46 11.1 64.5 8.8
    Details Little Men Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 7000 8000 10000 17000 104244
    (260)
    21.5 1.37 11.1 69.0 9.0
    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 Beautiful and Damned Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 121625
    (304)
    14.9 1.54 11.1 61.3 8.4
    Details The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 14000 17000 23000 36446
    (91)
    22.3 1.34 11.1 71.3 8.8
    Details The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886 1959 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 240707
    (601)
    19.2 1.43 11.1 66.2 8.8
    Details A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 116398
    (290)
    20.0 1.42 11.2 66.5 9.0
    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 Beowulf Gummere, Francis Barton (1855) (1919) 4000 7000 11000 14000 19000 24000 25594
    (63)
    23.1 1.37 11.2 67.2 9.6
    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 The Career of Katherine Bush Glyn, Elinor 1864 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 19000 105388
    (263)
    17.8 1.46 11.2 65.4 8.6
    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 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 Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Boylan, R. Dillon 1749 1832 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 15000 42359
    (105)
    17.7 1.48 11.3 63.4 8.8
    Details A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story Harrison, Carter H. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 66474
    (166)
    18.5 1.48 11.3 63.2 9.0
    Details The Great God Pan Machen, Arthur 1863 1947 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 21527
    (53)
    19.7 1.45 11.3 64.5 9.2
    Details The Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 290649
    (726)
    17.4 1.51 11.3 61.7 9.0
    Details Mystère de la chambre jaune. English Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 2000 4000 9000 10000 11000 19000 73022
    (182)
    15.8 1.5 11.3 63.7 8.3
    Details The Pied Piper of Hamelin Browning, Robert 1812 1889 4000 7000 11000 15000 16000 20000 2145
    (5)
    23.3 1.38 11.3 66.5 9.8
    Details Nonsense Books Lear, Edward 1812 1888 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 19000 28733
    (71)
    18.8 1.47 11.3 63.2 9.1
    Details Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Prest, Thomas Preskett 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 327232
    (818)
    18.9 1.43 11.3 66.6 8.7
    Details The Land That Time Forgot Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 22000 36905
    (92)
    20.0 1.44 11.3 64.7 9.2
    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 Voyage au centre de la terre. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 85218
    (213)
    15.9 1.53 11.3 61.3 8.7
    Details The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 1873 1939 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74336
    (185)
    19.0 1.45 11.3 65.2 8.9
    Details Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74652
    (186)
    18.2 1.47 11.3 64.2 8.8
    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

    Notes:

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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.