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 | Sailing Alone Around the World | Slocum, Joshua | 1844 | 1910 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 13000 | 20000 |
69436 (173) |
22.4 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 62.0 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | Villette | Brontë, Charlotte | 1816 | 1855 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
189437 (473) |
18.2 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 61.8 | 9.2 | |
| Details | The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper | Homer | Cowper, William | 750BC (1731) | 650BC (1800) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 24000 |
169570 (423) |
21.2 | 1.46 | 12.7 | 61.8 | 9.9 |
| Details | The Pickwick Papers | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
290649 (726) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.3 | 61.7 | 9.0 | |
| Details | Arabian nights. English | Anonymous | Burton, Richard Francis, Sir | (1821) | (1890) | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 22000 |
172497 (431) |
25.8 | 1.41 | 13.4 | 61.6 | 11.1 |
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
124102 (310) |
22.4 | 1.45 | 13.2 | 61.6 | 10.2 |
| Details | The Iliad | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
152112 (380) |
31.0 | 1.35 | 15.0 | 61.5 | 12.4 |
| Details | Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The fiddle and the bow, The paradise of fools, Visions | Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love) | 1850 | 1912 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
29397 (73) |
21.5 | 1.46 | 12.3 | 61.5 | 10.0 | |
| Details | Allan Quatermain | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
105546 (263) |
24.1 | 1.43 | 13.0 | 61.5 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
142729 (356) |
20.7 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 61.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) | -Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse) | 1876 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 | 20000 |
27844 (69) |
15.4 | 1.53 | 10.8 | 61.4 | 8.5 | ||
| Details | Candide | Voltaire | 1694 | 1778 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 21000 |
35400 (88) |
18.0 | 1.5 | 11.7 | 61.4 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | Discoverers and Explorers | Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard) | 1855 | 1903 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 | 17000 |
20101 (50) |
19.6 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 61.4 | 9.6 | |
| 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 Beautiful and Damned | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
121625 (304) |
14.9 | 1.54 | 11.1 | 61.3 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete | Pepys, Samuel | Bright, Mynors | 1633 (1818) | 1703 (1883) | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
1253859 (3134) |
30.4 | 1.36 | 14.6 | 61.3 | 12.3 |
| Details | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims | La Rochefoucauld, François duc de | Willis Bund, J. W. (John William) | 1613 (1843) | 1680 (1928) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
34123 (85) |
16.4 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 61.2 | 8.8 |
| Details | Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt | Baikie, James | 1866 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
26825 (67) |
27.7 | 1.39 | 14.0 | 61.2 | 11.6 | |
| Details | The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians | Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir | 1857 | 1934 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
98023 (245) |
23.6 | 1.44 | 13.3 | 61.2 | 10.6 | |
| Details | Short-Stories | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
73428 (183) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.6 | 61.2 | 9.0 | ||||
| Details | Emma | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
155516 (388) |
20.8 | 1.47 | 12.4 | 61.1 | 9.9 | |
| Details | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| 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 | Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 24000 |
70188 (175) |
20.5 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 61.1 | 9.8 | ||||
| Details | How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | Bennett, Arnold | 1867 | 1931 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
12746 (31) |
17.8 | 1.51 | 11.7 | 61.0 | 9.2 | |
| Details | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome | 121 | 180 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
71538 (178) |
21.0 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 60.9 | 10.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
169054 (422) |
17.2 | 1.52 | 11.8 | 60.6 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
27904 (69) |
19.4 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 60.6 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Metamorphosis | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
21986 (54) |
28.3 | 1.39 | 14.3 | 60.4 | 11.9 |
| Details | English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a ne | Kirkham, Samuel | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
91181 (227) |
13.9 | 1.56 | 11.3 | 60.4 | 8.3 | |||
| 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 | Around the World in 80 Days | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
62632 (156) |
17.0 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 60.3 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84282 (210) |
22.3 | 1.46 | 12.9 | 60.3 | 10.4 | ||||
| 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 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 | 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 | A Tramp Abroad | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
153271 (383) |
21.7 | 1.47 | 12.5 | 60.1 | 10.3 | |
| Details | The Age of Innocence | Wharton, Edith | 1862 | 1937 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
99922 (249) |
19.8 | 1.5 | 12.3 | 60.1 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and prep | Rose, Joshua | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
63754 (159) |
17.0 | 1.53 | 11.8 | 60.1 | 9.1 | |||
| Details | The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses | Wellman, Francis L. | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 15000 |
53685 (134) |
14.8 | 1.56 | 11.1 | 60.0 | 8.6 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Following the Equator | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184337 (460) |
20.0 | 1.5 | 12.4 | 60.0 | 9.9 | |
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.