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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 Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress Santayana, George 1863 1952 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 317310
    (793)
    29.2 1.72 19.8 31.8 16.1
    Details Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples Brown, Frank Chouteau 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 22000 20014
    (50)
    10.1 1.75 11.9 48.1 9.1
    Details The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 21000 108599
    (271)
    18.5 1.3 8.7 78.1 7.0
    Details The Personality of American Cities Hungerford, Edward 1875 1948 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 105425
    (263)
    21.1 1.51 12.8 57.8 10.4
    Details Return of Tarzan Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88607
    (221)
    18.0 1.44 10.8 66.3 8.5
    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 Viking Blood A Story of Seafaring Wallace, Frederick William 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 22000 138112
    (345)
    16.3 1.45 9.7 67.8 7.8
    Details Roget's Thesaurus Roget, Peter Mark 1779 1869 10000 14000 19000 21000 23000 25000 180410
    (451)
    9.1 1.94 13.6 33.6 10.8
    Details Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad Fea, Allan 1860 1956 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 19000 33872
    (84)
    31.2 1.58 17.8 41.2 15.3
    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 The Adventures of Sally Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 76500
    (191)
    12.1 1.46 8.5 70.8 6.4
    Details How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents a Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor 1873 1935 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 134858
    (337)
    19.9 1.58 13.6 52.7 10.9
    Details From sketch-book and diary Butler, Elizabeth 1846 1933 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 34038
    (85)
    23.5 1.51 13.6 55.4 11.4
    Details Famous Modern Ghost Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 93775
    (234)
    15.7 1.46 9.9 67.6 7.7
    Details Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Stein, Gertrude 1874 1946 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 14968
    (37)
    15.1 1.46 9.3 68.2 7.5
    Details Nature Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 15310
    (38)
    19.0 1.52 12.8 58.8 9.8
    Details Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) Engel, Carl 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 71969
    (179)
    19.4 1.67 15.0 45.6 11.7
    Details From Gretna Green to Land's End A Literary Journey in England. Bates, Katharine Lee 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 21000 71781
    (179)
    28.9 1.52 15.8 49.2 13.6
    Details Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br Vinycomb, John 4000 7000 12000 16000 19000 23000 52424
    (131)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.3 12.2
    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 Bontoc Igorot Jenks, Albert Ernest 1869 1953 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 103603
    (259)
    22.1 1.53 13.3 55.2 11.0
    Details American Fairy Tales Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 31719
    (79)
    16.3 1.41 9.7 70.6 7.5
    Details Sailing Alone Around the World Slocum, Joshua 1844 1910 2000 5000 8000 12000 13000 20000 69436
    (173)
    22.4 1.44 12.1 62.0 10.2
    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 The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) 1861 1933 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 104277
    (260)
    20.9 1.61 14.4 49.3 11.6
    Details The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 303152
    (757)
    22.2 1.7 16.6 40.5 13.1
    Details Introduction to the Science of Sociology Park, Robert Ezra 1864 1944 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 388459
    (971)
    14.6 1.73 13.7 45.3 10.6
    Details Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)
    21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    Details The Book of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo 1862 1913 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 17957
    (44)
    19.4 1.61 13.7 51.2 10.9
    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 Walking Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 17000 12032
    (30)
    24.9 1.48 14.2 56.1 11.6
    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 Fifty Years in Chains Or, the Life of an American Slave Ball, Charles 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 105338
    (263)
    35.5 1.43 17.9 49.7 15.1
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 152778
    (381)
    27.5 1.58 17.3 44.9 13.8
    Details Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Scott, Charles A. 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 13160
    (32)
    6.6 1.39 5.1 82.1 3.4
    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 Rilla of Ingleside Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) 1874 1942 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 101158
    (252)
    15.1 1.42 9.0 71.5 7.0
    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 The Real Mother Goose 4000 6000 11000 14000 16000 24000 15838
    (39)
    18.5 1.32 8.4 76.6 7.2
    Details The Skull Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 14000 14000 14000 7747
    (19)
    7.0 1.39 5.4 81.9 3.6
    Details Etiquette Post, Emily 1873 1960 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 200614
    (501)
    23.2 1.51 13.7 55.5 11.3
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 82534
    (206)
    20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Nuttall, P. Austin 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 758344
    (1895)
    30.7 1.69 19.4 32.9 16.3
    Details Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 4000 6000 9000 13000 16000 22000 65413
    (163)
    18.0 1.35 9.2 74.4 7.3
    Details Amusements in Mathematics Dudeney, Henry Ernest 1857 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 146902
    (367)
    15.8 1.48 10.6 65.5 8.1
    Details The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 27122
    (67)
    15.7 1.33 8.5 78.2 6.3
    Details My Reminiscences Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 22000 60224
    (150)
    20.0 1.51 12.6 58.7 10.1
    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 Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Bradford, William 1590 1657 2000 4000 8000 11000 16000 23000 169207
    (423)
    21.2 1.45 12.2 62.4 9.8
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 71189
    (177)
    21.1 1.5 13.0 58.2 10.4

    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.