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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 Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) (1924) 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 24000 87152
    (217)    		 19.4 1.47 11.8 62.6 9.3
    Details Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 317769
    (794)    		 19.4 1.49 12.3 61.1 9.6
    Details Euthyphro Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 7000 8000 15000 19000 9188
    (22)    		 19.3 1.48 13.0 62.1 9.4
    Details An Essay on Man Pope, Alexander 1688 1744 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 46424
    (116)    		 19.3 1.37 10.5 71.1 8.1
    Details The Minute Man of the Frontier Puddefoot, W. G. 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 54821
    (137)    		 19.3 1.43 10.7 66.1 8.8
    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 Aesop's Fables Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 12261
    (30)    		 19.3 1.3 9.7 77.1 7.3
    Details A Sailor of King George Hoffman, Frederick, Captain 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 21000 89006
    (222)    		 19.3 1.48 11.9 62.0 9.4
    Details The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 9530
    (23)    		 19.3 1.62 13.7 50.2 11.1
    Details Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 188 Burroughs, Barkham 1952 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 21000 147356
    (368)    		 19.3 1.51 12.1 59.8 9.7
    Details The Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 41011
    (102)    		 19.2 1.39 10.6 69.8 8.3
    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 French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie, de France, 12th cent. Mason, Eugene 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 73605
    (184)    		 19.2 1.33 10.0 74.8 7.6
    Details Mark Twain's Speeches Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 92337
    (230)    		 19.2 1.47 11.6 63.2 9.2
    Details The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886 1959 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 240707
    (601)    		 19.2 1.43 11.1 66.2 8.8
    Details The Wisdom of Father Brown Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 71271
    (178)    		 19.1 1.47 11.4 63.2 9.2
    Details The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under Bunyan, John 1628 1688 2000 4000 8000 11000 14000 20000 56792
    (141)    		 19.1 1.33 10.0 75.3 7.5
    Details The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)    		 19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    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 New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in Cotter, John L.Hudson, J. Paul 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 23000 15759
    (39)    		 19.1 1.71 15.1 42.4 12.1
    Details The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 52382
    (130)    		 19.1 1.41 11.0 67.9 8.5
    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 The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy, Baroness Emmuska 1865 1947 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 83462
    (208)    		 19.0 1.47 11.7 63.0 9.2
    Details Ramayana. English Valmiki Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) (1826) (1906) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 22000 394725
    (986)    		 19.0 1.38 10.5 70.4 8.1
    Details The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 1873 1939 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 74336
    (185)    		 19.0 1.45 11.3 65.2 8.9
    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 Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)    		 18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Prest, Thomas Preskett 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 327232
    (818)    		 18.9 1.43 11.3 66.6 8.7
    Details The Child's Day Hutchinson, Woods 1862 1930 1000 2000 5000 6000 8000 12000 40704
    (101)    		 18.9 1.3 9.3 78.1 7.1
    Details Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 183813
    (459)    		 18.8 1.42 10.8 67.3 8.5
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 77252
    (193)    		 18.8 1.58 13.2 53.7 10.5
    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 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 Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany Fox, Edward Lyell 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 85448
    (213)    		 18.8 1.48 11.4 62.7 9.2
    Details The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 93327
    (233)    		 18.8 1.47 11.6 63.5 9.1
    Details History of the United States Beard, Mary Ritter 1876 1958 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 199929
    (499)    		 18.8 1.71 15.4 42.7 12.0
    Details The Call of the Wild London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 23000 31797
    (79)    		 18.7 1.39 10.4 69.9 8.1
    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 The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 14000 706
    (1)    		 18.6 1.35 9.2 74.1 7.5
    Details Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Ho Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert) 1871 1930 2000 5000 8000 14000 19000 19000 36773
    (91)    		 18.6 1.33 9.6 75.4 7.4
    Details History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 4000 6000 9000 13000 16000 21000 256688
    (641)    		 18.6 1.72 15.8 42.3 12.0
    Details An Introduction to the History of Science Libby, Walter 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 71214
    (178)    		 18.6 1.72 15.3 42.9 11.9
    Details The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 86027
    (215)    		 18.6 1.35 9.6 74.0 7.6
    Details Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 183151
    (457)    		 18.5 1.46 11.2 64.3 8.9
    Details A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story Harrison, Carter H. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 66474
    (166)    		 18.5 1.48 11.3 63.2 9.0
    Details The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Cole, Fay-Cooper 1881 1961 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 96647
    (241)    		 18.5 1.52 12.1 59.4 9.6
    Details The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 21000 108599
    (271)    		 18.5 1.3 8.7 78.1 7.0
    Details The Real Mother Goose 4000 6000 11000 14000 16000 24000 15838
    (39)    		 18.5 1.32 8.4 76.6 7.2
    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

    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.