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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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40404
    (101)    		 20.3 1.48 12.3 60.7 9.8
    Details Best Russian Short Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 94443
    (236)    		 15.3 1.47 10.4 66.6 7.8
    Details Aesop's Fables; a new translation Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 22000 41387
    (103)    		 25.3 1.33 12.4 68.4 10.0
    Details The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 274389
    (685)    		 30.2 1.57 17.9 43.2 14.7
    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 Antichrist Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 1844 (1880) 1900 (1956) 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 32360
    (80)    		 32.0 1.59 18.7 39.5 15.7
    Details The Canterville Ghost Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 11587
    (28)    		 26.1 1.49 14.9 54.5 12.1
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 78609
    (196)    		 12.1 1.43 8.3 73.3 6.0
    Details Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Rowlandson, Mary White 1635 1710 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 20128
    (50)    		 25.9 1.35 12.9 66.1 10.5
    Details Steam, Its Generation and Use Babcock & Wilcox Company 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 20000 120558
    (301)    		 9.8 1.67 10.7 56.0 7.9
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)    		 14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan Ashford, Daisy 1881 1972 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 14509
    (36)    		 18.3 1.42 10.2 68.0 8.3
    Details The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18000 10194
    (25)    		 7.3 1.75 11.5 51.8 7.8
    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 The Game of Logic Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 13040
    (32)    		 8.5 1.46 7.4 74.7 4.9
    Details Omnilingual Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 16172
    (40)    		 14.5 1.52 10.4 63.4 8.0
    Details Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) 1848 1929 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 150454
    (376)    		 32.0 1.5 17.5 47.8 14.5
    Details The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 4000 7000 12000 17000 18000 69813
    (174)    		 15.0 1.42 10.0 71.2 7.0
    Details The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 99183
    (247)    		 24.2 1.6 15.8 47.2 12.7
    Details Nationalism Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 14000 26616
    (66)    		 24.0 1.56 15.2 50.2 12.2
    Details On the Trail of The Immigrant Steiner, Edward A. 1866 1856 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 87463
    (218)    		 28.2 1.54 16.4 47.9 13.6
    Details The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat Celnart, Elisabeth 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 45211
    (113)    		 26.3 1.56 16.2 48.0 13.1
    Details The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 158602
    (396)    		 15.8 1.48 10.1 66.0 8.0
    Details Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot Craig, Austin 1872 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 62400
    (156)    		 29.6 1.64 18.6 38.3 15.3
    Details A Child's Garden of Verses Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 8785
    (21)    		 23.1 1.36 10.9 68.7 9.4
    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 Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study Martin, Everett Dean 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 70365
    (175)    		 18.9 1.69 14.8 44.7 11.7
    Details The Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 140685
    (351)    		 15.8 1.44 9.9 69.1 7.5
    Details Heretics Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 64184
    (160)    		 21.1 1.55 13.8 54.0 11.0
    Details The First Men in the Moon Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 67768
    (169)    		 15.6 1.49 10.2 65.2 8.0
    Details Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)    		 21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    Details The Invention of Lithography Senefelder, Alois Muller, J. W. 3000 4000 7000 12000 13000 17000 87110
    (217)    		 24.2 1.54 14.5 52.3 12.0
    Details The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88831
    (222)    		 14.6 1.54 11.0 61.4 8.3
    Details The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 Perrault, Charles Welsh, Charles 1628 (1850) 1703 (1914) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 18345
    (45)    		 23.2 1.36 11.8 67.9 9.6
    Details Carmen Mérimée, Prosper Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) 1803 (1853) 1870 (1936) 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 20000 23528
    (58)    		 15.7 1.43 9.4 69.8 7.4
    Details Amerigo Vespucci Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) 1849 1913 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 55391
    (138)    		 29.6 1.56 17.8 45.1 14.3
    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 Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 92171
    (230)    		 28.4 1.6 17.7 43.0 14.3
    Details The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa New York Central Railroad Company 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 48248
    (120)    		 14.7 1.63 12.4 53.8 9.4
    Details The Secret Sharer Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 2000 4000 7000 8000 12000 17000 16439
    (41)    		 14.4 1.43 9.0 70.9 6.9
    Details Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 31960
    (79)    		 25.1 1.38 12.6 64.2 10.5
    Details The Elements of Style Strunk, William 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 13203
    (33)    		 15.7 1.65 13.1 51.3 10.0
    Details The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 213290
    (533)    		 20.8 1.43 12.0 64.6 9.4
    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
    Details Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G Boswell, James 1740 1795 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 214740
    (536)    		 20.2 1.52 12.9 57.9 10.2
    Details Women in Love Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 179224
    (448)    		 11.2 1.45 8.1 72.8 5.9
    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 A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund Hall, G. Stanley 1856 (1846) 1939 (1924) 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 155848
    (389)    		 24.6 1.65 16.9 42.3 13.5
    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

    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.