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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 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 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 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 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 War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 560687
    (1401)
    17.9 1.49 11.9 62.4 9.0
    Details A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 116398
    (290)
    20.0 1.42 11.2 66.5 9.0
    Details The Devil's Dictionary Bierce, Ambrose 1842 1914 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 22000 58601
    (146)
    13.9 1.62 11.9 55.3 9.0
    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 Handbook of Soap Manufacture Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert)Appleton, H. A. 4000 9000 15000 17000 19000 24000 53752
    (134)
    9.8 1.76 12.2 48.1 9.0
    Details Music Notation and Terminology Gehrkens, Karl Wilson 1882 1975 3000 5000 10000 15000 17000 23000 40795
    (101)
    13.0 1.66 11.8 53.5 9.0
    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 Black Beauty Sewell, Anna 1820 1878 1000 2000 5000 7000 9000 15000 59721
    (149)
    23.5 1.31 10.9 72.5 9.0
    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 Ethica. English Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632 1677 3000 4000 6000 9000 13000 17000 87693
    (219)
    16.0 1.56 12.4 59.1 9.0
    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 Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    Details The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 134572
    (336)
    18.1 1.49 11.4 62.8 9.0
    Details The Pursuit of God Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson) 1897 1963 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 29000
    (72)
    19.4 1.44 11.6 65.4 9.0
    Details Short-Stories 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 73428
    (183)
    17.4 1.51 11.6 61.2 9.0
    Details The Best American Humorous Short Stories 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 21000 101352
    (253)
    17.6 1.5 11.4 62.4 8.9
    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 The Hindu-Arabic Numerals Karpinski, Louis Charles 1878 1956 3000 6000 11000 15000 18000 23000 45182
    (112)
    11.6 1.69 11.9 51.6 8.9
    Details The Art of Modern Lace Making 4000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 17344
    (43)
    16.0 1.55 11.2 59.5 8.9
    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 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 Life of Edward the Black Prince Creighton, Louise 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 58151
    (145)
    18.0 1.48 11.8 63.4 8.9
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 110838
    (277)
    18.2 1.48 11.5 63.5 8.9
    Details The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Yule, Henry, Sir (1820) (1889) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 313144
    (782)
    16.0 1.55 11.7 59.5 8.9
    Details Notes from the Underground Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 43766
    (109)
    18.1 1.48 11.3 63.5 8.9
    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 Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) 1870 4000 5000 10000 13000 16000 20000 99523
    (248)
    12.9 1.65 12.0 54.1 8.9
    Details The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Boylan, R. Dillon 1749 1832 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 15000 42359
    (105)
    17.7 1.48 11.3 63.4 8.8
    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 Grimm's Fairy Stories Grimm, Wilhelm 1786 1859 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 50632
    (126)
    23.0 1.31 11.1 72.8 8.8
    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 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 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 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyám FitzGerald, Edward 1048 (1809) 1122 (1883) 4000 6000 10000 14000 17000 23000 11527
    (28)
    18.2 1.46 11.1 64.5 8.8
    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 De re coquinaria. English Apicius Vehling, Joseph Dommers (1879) (1950) 5000 8000 13000 16000 20000 24000 94575
    (236)
    12.5 1.65 11.5 54.3 8.8
    Details The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 6000 9000 13000 16000 20000 1235
    (3)
    18.4 1.46 10.1 65.0 8.8
    Details Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74652
    (186)
    18.2 1.47 11.3 64.2 8.8
    Details Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Cole, E. W. (Edward William) 1832 1918 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 141555
    (353)
    20.6 1.38 10.6 68.8 8.8
    Details The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 14000 17000 23000 36446
    (91)
    22.3 1.34 11.1 71.3 8.8
    Details The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale 2000 5000 5000 7000 11000 13000 1406
    (3)
    18.5 1.46 11.5 64.8 8.8
    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 Beast in the Jungle James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 18288
    (45)
    20.3 1.39 11.6 68.4 8.8
    Details Theresa Raquin Zola, Émile Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred 1840 (1853) 1902 (1922) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 70860
    (177)
    17.4 1.49 11.4 62.8 8.8
    Details The Time Machine Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32111
    (80)
    16.8 1.5 10.8 62.6 8.7
    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

    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.