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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 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) 1813 1897 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 82835
    (207)    		 16.2 1.43 10.0 69.8 7.5
    Details The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) 1873 (1873) 1897 (1963) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 104435
    (261)    		 20.1 1.43 11.4 65.5 9.1
    Details Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811 1896 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 180196
    (450)    		 17.2 1.42 10.1 69.0 7.9
    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 El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)    		 19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    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 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 The Communist Manifesto Engels, Friedrich 1820 1895 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 15000 11413
    (28)    		 24.1 1.81 19.1 29.5 15.1
    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 My Bondage and My Freedom Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 131906
    (329)    		 23.6 1.51 14.2 54.7 11.5
    Details Venus in Furs Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von Savage, Fernanda 1836 1895 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 41668
    (104)    		 14.3 1.49 9.5 66.6 7.5
    Details The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in Engels, Friedrich Kelley, Florence 1820 (1859) 1895 (1932) 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 114426
    (286)    		 27.4 1.62 17.1 42.3 14.2
    Details The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25369
    (63)    		 21.3 1.44 12.1 63.3 9.7
    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 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 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 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 Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 81525
    (203)    		 21.2 1.34 10.3 71.7 8.5
    Details The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 25355
    (63)    		 21.4 1.44 12.2 63.3 9.7
    Details Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People Mallery, Garrick 1831 1894 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 115635
    (289)    		 19.9 1.6 14.1 51.4 11.0
    Details Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Maupassant, Guy de 1850 1893 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 489213
    (1223)    		 16.9 1.45 10.5 67.2 8.1
    Details Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 1819 1892 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 22000 120543
    (301)    		 33.2 1.46 16.8 49.9 14.6
    Details Moby Dick, or, the whale Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 211314
    (528)    		 21.5 1.49 12.6 59.4 10.3
    Details The Piazza Tales Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 78731
    (196)    		 23.0 1.55 14.2 52.4 11.7
    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 Encyclopedia of Needlework Dillmont, Thérèse de 1846 1890 4000 5000 10000 15000 22000 22000 126757
    (316)    		 14.1 1.42 8.7 72.4 6.7
    Details Adventures of Pinocchio Collodi, Carlo Della Chiesa, Carol 1826 (1887) 1890 2000 3000 6000 11000 14000 17000 39730
    (99)    		 12.2 1.37 7.5 78.3 5.4
    Details Shakspere & Typography Blades, William 1824 1890 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 19000 6763
    (16)    		 19.3 1.59 13.4 53.1 10.6
    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 Moonstone Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 19000 191496
    (478)    		 15.9 1.47 10.4 66.8 7.9
    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 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Mackay, Charles 1814 1889 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 20000 273706
    (684)    		 23.0 1.57 15.0 50.7 11.9
    Details Little Women Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 185220
    (463)    		 19.5 1.41 10.8 68.0 8.6
    Details Little Men Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 7000 8000 10000 17000 104244
    (260)    		 21.5 1.37 11.1 69.0 9.0
    Details Nonsense Books Lear, Edward 1812 1888 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 19000 28733
    (71)    		 18.8 1.47 11.3 63.2 9.1
    Details Lulu's Library, Volume I (of 3) Alcott, Louisa May 1832 1888 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 50272
    (125)    		 19.9 1.33 9.5 74.4 7.8
    Details The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures Hopkins, Mark 1802 1887 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 15404
    (38)    		 32.4 1.55 18.6 43.2 15.3
    Details Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Dickinson, Emily 1830 1886 4000 6000 10000 12000 14000 22000 30572
    (76)    		 13.2 1.44 8.9 71.7 6.6
    Details Les Misérables Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 562958
    (1407)    		 15.6 1.5 10.9 64.1 8.2
    Details Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822 1885 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 276868
    (692)    		 20.5 1.55 13.9 54.7 10.7
    Details Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)    		 16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    Details Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)    		 29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9
    Details Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx, Karl 1818 1883 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 39830
    (99)    		 30.8 1.72 20.5 29.7 16.8
    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 On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 21000 205539
    (513)    		 35.3 1.67 21.2 29.5 17.9
    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 Essays — First Series Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 74343
    (185)    		 20.7 1.49 13.0 60.1 10.0
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 153985
    (384)    		 29.6 1.67 18.8 35.7 15.6
    Details On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 154299
    (385)    		 30.7 1.67 19.2 34.8 16.0
    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

    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.