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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 Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Spenser, Edmund 1552 1599 4000 7000 12000 15000 20000 24000 70160
    (175)
    17.3 1.43 10.4 68.1 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 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 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 Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 8000 12000 16000 22000 28603
    (71)
    17.3 1.38 9.0 72.8 7.4
    Details Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1850 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 10624
    (26)
    17.3 1.44 10.4 67.3 8.2
    Details The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 39505
    (98)
    17.4 1.33 9.3 76.3 6.9
    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 Triplanetary Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) 1890 1965 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 20000 56328
    (140)
    17.4 1.56 12.1 57.2 9.6
    Details Short-Stories 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 73428
    (183)
    17.4 1.51 11.6 61.2 9.0
    Details Theresa Raquin Zola, Émile Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred 1840 (1853) 1902 (1922) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 70860
    (177)
    17.4 1.49 11.4 62.8 8.8
    Details Tales of Folk and Fairies Pyle, Katharine 1863 1938 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 54127
    (135)
    17.5 1.29 8.6 79.7 6.5
    Details The Madman Gibran, Khalil 1883 1931 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 7034
    (17)
    17.5 1.36 9.1 74.3 7.2
    Details The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form Hibberd, Shirley 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 40114
    (100)
    17.5 1.59 12.8 54.9 10.0
    Details The Best American Humorous Short Stories 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 21000 101352
    (253)
    17.6 1.5 11.4 62.4 8.9
    Details The Trial Kafka, Franz Wyllie, David 1883 1924 1000 2000 4000 5000 7000 12000 82679
    (206)
    17.6 1.4 10.4 70.4 7.8
    Details The Chessmen of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 10000 16000 87139
    (217)
    17.6 1.44 10.7 67.4 8.2
    Details Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street Melville, Herman 1819 1891 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 19000 14288
    (35)
    17.6 1.57 12.3 56.2 9.8
    Details The Descent of Man Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 298564
    (746)
    17.6 1.66 14.0 48.4 10.9
    Details An Elementary Study of Insects Haseman, Leonard 1884 1969 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 23000 17942
    (44)
    17.6 1.45 10.7 66.5 8.4
    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 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 David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)
    17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)
    17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    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 History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)
    17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    Details Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) 1830 1903 4000 6000 8000 13000 14000 20000 54623
    (136)
    17.7 1.66 14.0 48.1 11.0
    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 Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 68147
    (170)
    17.8 1.35 9.3 74.2 7.3
    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 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 Île mystérieuse. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 192750
    (481)
    17.8 1.5 11.8 62.0 9.0
    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 Woman in White Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 16000 241638
    (604)
    17.8 1.47 11.3 64.1 8.7
    Details Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Beard, Daniel Carter 1850 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 50042
    (125)
    17.8 1.39 10.1 71.4 7.7
    Details War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 560687
    (1401)
    17.9 1.49 11.9 62.4 9.0
    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 Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 67669
    (169)
    17.9 1.35 9.3 74.3 7.3
    Details Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut Anonymous 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 22000 132745
    (331)
    17.9 1.72 15.0 42.8 11.7
    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 Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)
    18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    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 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 Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 100810
    (252)
    18.0 1.48 11.5 63.6 8.9
    Details Life of Edward the Black Prince Creighton, Louise 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 58151
    (145)
    18.0 1.48 11.8 63.4 8.9
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)
    18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    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 The Affair at the Inn Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith 1856 1923 2000 4000 7000 9000 13000 17000 33539
    (83)
    18.1 1.46 10.9 64.8 8.7
    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 Little Dorrit Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 332182
    (830)
    18.1 1.47 11.2 64.5 8.8

    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.