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 | A Damsel in Distress | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
76064 (190) |
11.6 | 1.46 | 8.3 | 71.8 | 6.1 | |
| Details | The Cid | Corneille, Pierre | Mongan, Roscoe | 1606 | 1684 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
18903 (47) |
12.1 | 1.46 | 8.8 | 70.7 | 6.4 |
| Details | Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying | Hooke, Robert | 1635 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
147089 (367) |
48.8 | 1.46 | 23.6 | 33.9 | 20.7 | |
| 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 | The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
1235 (3) |
18.4 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 65.0 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | West, Julius | 1860 (1891) | 1904 (1918) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
66807 (167) |
9.8 | 1.46 | 7.6 | 73.3 | 5.5 |
| Details | The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale | 2000 | 5000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 |
1406 (3) |
18.5 | 1.46 | 11.5 | 64.8 | 8.8 | ||||
| Details | Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 24000 |
46927 (117) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.3 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The King in Yellow | Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) | 1865 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
71137 (177) |
15.5 | 1.46 | 9.6 | 68.0 | 7.6 | |
| Details | The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
11304 (28) |
14.1 | 1.46 | 9.7 | 68.8 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account o | Keller, Helen | 1880 | 1968 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
133525 (333) |
19.7 | 1.46 | 11.5 | 63.2 | 9.3 | |
| Details | The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper | Homer | Cowper, William | 750BC (1731) | 650BC (1800) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 24000 |
169570 (423) |
21.2 | 1.46 | 12.7 | 61.8 | 9.9 |
| 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 | Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
142729 (356) |
20.7 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 61.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
187931 (469) |
24.6 | 1.47 | 14.0 | 57.4 | 11.4 | |||
| 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 Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Chopin, Kate | 1850 | 1904 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
63540 (158) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.8 | 67.9 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Garnett, Constance | 1821 (1861) | 1881 (1946) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
202487 (506) |
14.3 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 67.6 | 7.4 |
| Details | The Invisible Man | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
47694 (119) |
12.5 | 1.47 | 8.6 | 70.2 | 6.6 | |
| Details | Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
37389 (93) |
15.6 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 66.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Best Russian Short Stories | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
94443 (236) |
15.3 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 66.6 | 7.8 | ||||
| Details | 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 | 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 | 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 | Swann's Way | Proust, Marcel | Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) | 1871 (1889) | 1922 (1930) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
194407 (486) |
36.0 | 1.47 | 18.7 | 45.6 | 15.8 |
| 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 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 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 | Herland | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | 1860 | 1935 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
51298 (128) |
15.4 | 1.47 | 10.2 | 67.1 | 7.7 | |
| Details | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy, Baroness Emmuska | 1865 | 1947 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
83462 (208) |
19.0 | 1.47 | 11.7 | 63.0 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Idiot | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Martin, Eva M. | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
239039 (597) |
14.9 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 67.1 | 7.6 |
| Details | She | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
129365 (323) |
27.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 54.7 | 12.4 | |
| 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 | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) | 480 (1862) | 525 (1931) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
42189 (105) |
19.5 | 1.47 | 12.3 | 62.6 | 9.4 |
| Details | The Moonstone | Collins, Wilkie | 1824 | 1889 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 19000 |
191496 (478) |
15.9 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 66.8 | 7.9 | |
| 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 | The House on the Borderland | Hodgson, William Hope | 1877 | 1918 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
50522 (126) |
17.3 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 65.1 | 8.5 | |
| 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 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 | 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 | Daddy-Long-Legs | Webster, Jean | 1876 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
36296 (90) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.3 | 67.5 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Beeton's Book of Needlework | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 14000 | 15000 | 17000 | 20000 |
81453 (203) |
13.6 | 1.47 | 8.8 | 68.7 | 7.0 | |
| Details | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
3713 (9) |
18.8 | 1.47 | 11.5 | 63.0 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Pillar of Light | Tracy, Louis | 1863 | 1928 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
79534 (198) |
13.2 | 1.47 | 9.1 | 69.4 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | The Old Man of the Mountain | Strang, Herbert | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 20000 |
58447 (146) |
15.1 | 1.47 | 10.3 | 67.3 | 7.6 | |||
| 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 | |
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.