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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 Anti-Slavery Alphabet Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 14000 706
    (1)
    18.6 1.35 9.2 74.1 7.5
    Details The Tale of Tom Kitten Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 3000 7000 10000 13000 13000 13000 754
    (1)
    15.1 1.51 10.2 64.2 8.1
    Details The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 991
    (2)
    17.1 1.49 10.6 63.7 8.6
    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 Story of the Three Little Pigs Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 2000 2000 5000 7000 7000 9000 1052
    (2)
    16.2 1.3 8.3 80.4 6.1
    Details Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860 1937 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 12000 1073
    (2)
    20.2 1.37 10.7 70.8 8.4
    Details Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas Moore, Clement Clarke 1779 1863 2000 5000 7000 9000 12000 15000 1086
    (2)
    16.0 1.43 9.5 69.6 7.5
    Details The Eyes Have It Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 8000 9000 12000 1120
    (2)
    9.8 1.53 8.5 67.8 6.2
    Details Little Black Sambo Bannerman, Helen 1862 1946 4000 5000 12000 12000 12000 12000 1153
    (2)
    16.0 1.41 9.0 71.2 7.3
    Details The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 4000 6000 6000 8000 9000 1158
    (2)
    16.5 1.51 10.3 62.5 8.7
    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 The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 6000 10000 12000 13000 13000 1399
    (3)
    13.9 1.54 9.0 62.5 8.0
    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 The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America United States 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 17000 1478
    (3)
    39.9 1.71 24.3 21.5 20.2
    Details The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography Butler, Samuel 1774 1839 3000 6000 10000 17000 19000 19000 1703
    (4)
    18.1 1.85 16.9 31.6 13.4
    Details The Gift of the Magi Henry, O. 1862 1910 2000 5000 7000 11000 12000 14000 2038
    (5)
    12.6 1.42 8.1 74.2 6.0
    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 The Cask of Amontillado Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 11000 17000 19000 19000 2302
    (5)
    10.0 1.51 8.4 68.9 6.1
    Details Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809 1894 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 2343
    (5)
    14.7 1.27 6.8 84.1 5.2
    Details The Masque of the Red Death Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 14000 18000 2384
    (5)
    23.6 1.48 14.1 57.9 11.1
    Details Beyond the Door Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 8000 9000 2451
    (6)
    8.4 1.35 5.4 84.3 3.6
    Details 2 B R 0 2 B Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 2000 3000 7000 9000 10000 14000 2501
    (6)
    9.4 1.46 7.5 74.1 5.3
    Details Cautionary Tales for Children Belloc, Hilaire 1870 1953 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 2620
    (6)
    16.4 1.5 11.4 63.2 8.5
    Details Beyond Lies the Wub Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 2682
    (6)
    6.6 1.4 5.5 81.6 3.5
    Details Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories 2000 4000 6000 12000 15000 15000 2706
    (6)
    18.5 1.34 9.2 74.6 7.5
    Details A Modest Proposal Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 3000 4000 7000 9000 14000 18000 3406
    (8)
    50.8 1.53 25.1 25.5 22.3
    Details The Big Trip Up Yonder Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 3000 5000 12000 16000 16000 16000 3562
    (8)
    13.5 1.49 9.6 66.9 7.3
    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 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 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772 1834 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 3850
    (9)
    15.8 1.28 7.4 82.7 5.7
    Details The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) 1863 1943 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 3926
    (9)
    12.7 1.4 8.0 75.4 5.9
    Details The Black Riders and Other Lines Crane, Stephen 1871 1900 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 3953
    (9)
    11.7 1.36 6.7 80.3 5.0
    Details The Velveteen Rabbit Bianco, Margery Williams 1880 1944 1000 4000 7000 8000 11000 13000 3965
    (9)
    16.2 1.33 8.3 77.5 6.5
    Details The Ladies Delight Anonymous 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 16000 4466
    (11)
    42.1 1.35 19.5 50.1 16.7
    Details The Waste Land Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 4000 6000 11000 14000 17000 22000 4490
    (11)
    12.0 1.51 8.9 66.6 7.0
    Details My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kr Kronheim, Joseph Martin 1810 1896 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 4593
    (11)
    22.7 1.32 10.4 72.5 8.8
    Details The Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)
    7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    Details Masters of Water-Colour Painting 3000 4000 7000 11000 15000 20000 4860
    (12)
    14.8 1.65 12.1 52.6 9.6
    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 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 Golden Goose Book Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 1000 3000 6000 9000 14000 14000 5262
    (13)
    21.4 1.29 10.3 76.2 7.9
    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 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 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 Songs of Innocence and Experience Blake, William 1757 1827 4000 5000 8000 10000 12000 15000 5549
    (13)
    18.8 1.31 8.8 77.1 7.2
    Details The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes Henry VIII, King of England 1491 1547 2000 3000 7000 12000 13000 17000 5585
    (13)
    22.3 1.42 12.3 64.4 9.8
    Details The Adventure of the Dying Detective Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 5730
    (14)
    10.4 1.43 7.6 75.0 5.4
    Details Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Hands, A. F. Morris 4000 6000 9000 13000 19000 22000 5892
    (14)
    16.3 1.56 11.6 58.6 9.1
    Details The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860 1935 1000 2000 5000 8000 11000 15000 6023
    (15)
    15.4 1.38 8.3 74.2 6.7
    Details His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 6059
    (15)
    12.9 1.43 8.1 73.2 6.3

    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.