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 | The Defenders | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 14000 |
8545 (21) |
8.9 | 1.44 | 6.9 | 76.2 | 4.9 | |
| 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 Invention of the Sewing Machine | Cooper, Grace Rogers | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
44774 (111) |
10.5 | 1.71 | 10.8 | 51.1 | 8.8 | |||
| Details | Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World | Cook, James | 1728 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
220361 (550) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.3 | 62.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Roughing It | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
164013 (410) |
22.6 | 1.49 | 13.2 | 57.9 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | 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 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 | The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) | Duncker, Max | Abbott, Evelyn | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
140000 (350) |
16.9 | 1.57 | 12.8 | 56.8 | 9.5 | ||
| Details | The Story of Our Submarines | Bower, John Graham | 1886 | 1940 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 |
52976 (132) |
19.2 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 60.0 | 9.7 | |
| 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 | Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti | Henry, Henry A. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
40370 (100) |
27.5 | 1.59 | 17.7 | 44.1 | 13.9 | |||
| Details | The jungle book | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 25000 |
51432 (128) |
16.6 | 1.34 | 8.4 | 76.7 | 6.7 | |
| Details | The Shunned House | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) | 1890 | 1937 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
10663 (26) |
30.4 | 1.6 | 17.9 | 40.3 | 15.2 | |
| Details | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 19000 |
26821 (67) |
16.4 | 1.36 | 8.7 | 74.9 | 6.9 | |
| Details | How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so | Williams, Archibald | 1871 | 1934 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70756 (176) |
16.5 | 1.56 | 11.6 | 58.0 | 9.3 | |
| Details | Peter and Wendy | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
47114 (117) |
14.8 | 1.36 | 8.4 | 76.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan | White, Ellen Gould Harmon | 1827 | 1915 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
241259 (603) |
17.1 | 1.53 | 12.3 | 60.2 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | 1844 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
27312 (68) |
22.6 | 1.6 | 14.9 | 48.3 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
| 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 Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred | Morgan, William | 1774 | 1826 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
112150 (280) |
13.8 | 1.51 | 10.3 | 65.4 | 7.6 | |
| Details | Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden | (1828) | (1889) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
127694 (319) |
14.6 | 1.42 | 9.1 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo | Machen, Arthur | 1725 (1863) | 1798 (1947) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
1251067 (3127) |
20.8 | 1.46 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.7 |
| Details | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1730 | 1774 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
22563 (56) |
8.3 | 1.42 | 6.0 | 78.2 | 4.4 | |
| Details | Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
91306 (228) |
21.0 | 1.53 | 13.6 | 55.9 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend | Aesop | Townsend, George Fyler | 620BC (1814) | 563BC (1900) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
40748 (101) |
22.2 | 1.43 | 12.6 | 63.5 | 9.9 |
| Details | The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do | Popular Mechanics Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
231737 (579) |
15.1 | 1.44 | 9.7 | 69.8 | 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 | Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Harvey, Alexander Miller | 1844 (1867) | 1900 (1928) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
36537 (91) |
32.2 | 1.65 | 19.7 | 34.9 | 16.4 |
| Details | Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours | Newton, Isaac, Sir | 1642 | 1727 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
96556 (241) |
32.8 | 1.5 | 18.0 | 46.6 | 14.9 | |
| Details | The Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph | Belloc, Hilaire | 1864 (1870) | 1938 (1953) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
25763 (64) |
23.0 | 1.28 | 10.7 | 75.3 | 8.5 |
| Details | Medea of Euripides | Euripides | Murray, Gilbert | 480BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
19773 (49) |
12.0 | 1.36 | 7.3 | 79.8 | 5.1 |
| Details | Ghostly Phenomena | O'Donnell, Elliott | 1872 | 1965 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 15000 |
34834 (87) |
25.6 | 1.56 | 15.5 | 48.9 | 12.8 | |
| Details | Anabasis | Xenophon | Dakyns, Henry Graham | 431BC (1838) | 350BC (1911) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
93859 (234) |
26.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 55.8 | 12.0 |
| Details | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Molière | Jones, Philip Dwight | 1622 | 1673 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 |
18257 (45) |
11.3 | 1.49 | 8.4 | 69.7 | 6.3 |
| 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 | Human Animals | Hamel, Frank | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
97180 (242) |
23.3 | 1.51 | 14.0 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United | Wells-Barnett, Ida B. | 1862 | 1931 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
33314 (83) |
20.7 | 1.54 | 13.4 | 55.5 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making | Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) | 1850 | 1896 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
102413 (256) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 62.6 | 9.3 | |
| Details | Through Welsh Doorways | Marks, Jeannette Augustus | 1875 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 23000 |
41010 (102) |
15.1 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 7.1 | |
| Details | The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & | Cody, Sherwin | 1868 | 1959 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
59114 (147) |
18.7 | 1.52 | 12.4 | 59.0 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Voyage au centre de la terre. English | Verne, Jules | Malleson, Frederick Amadeus | 1828 (1819) | 1905 (1897) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
73544 (183) |
14.7 | 1.51 | 10.6 | 63.9 | 8.0 |
| Details | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Ann Ward | 1764 | 1823 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
289394 (723) |
27.3 | 1.53 | 16.5 | 49.8 | 13.1 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
19419 (48) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.5 | 45.4 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
| 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 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
135621 (339) |
16.3 | 1.47 | 10.3 | 66.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries | Caesar, Julius | McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) | 100BC | 44BC | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
158969 (397) |
33.9 | 1.55 | 19.3 | 41.0 | 16.0 |
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.