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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 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 Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book after Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 6000 8000 14000 21000 15023
    (37)    		 18.5 1.37 9.7 71.8 7.8
    Details My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition Anonymous 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 15000 263497
    (658)    		 18.4 1.37 9.6 72.1 7.8
    Details Night and Day Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 6000 7000 9000 14000 164999
    (412)    		 18.4 1.49 11.9 62.0 9.2
    Details The American Frugal Housewife Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 20000 44452
    (111)    		 18.4 1.42 10.5 68.1 8.3
    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 Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 147161
    (367)    		 18.3 1.45 11.1 65.7 8.6
    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 Diva's Ruby Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 115276
    (288)    		 18.3 1.42 10.9 67.9 8.3
    Details The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Allen, Emory Adams 1853 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 206643
    (516)    		 18.2 1.56 13.0 56.2 9.9
    Details The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 59603
    (149)    		 18.2 1.49 11.1 62.4 9.1
    Details Dracula Stoker, Bram 1847 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 159139
    (397)    		 18.2 1.36 9.8 73.3 7.5
    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 Stories from Hans Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 36988
    (92)    		 18.2 1.34 9.4 75.1 7.3
    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 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 Villette Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 20000 189437
    (473)    		 18.2 1.5 11.4 61.8 9.2
    Details Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 169364
    (423)    		 18.2 1.33 9.2 76.0 7.2
    Details The Art of War Sunzi Giles, Lionel (1875) (1958) 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 22000 52452
    (131)    		 18.1 1.52 12.6 59.5 9.5
    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 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 The Wind in the Willows Grahame, Kenneth 1859 1932 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 17000 57985
    (144)    		 18.1 1.41 10.2 69.4 8.1
    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 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 Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography Butler, Samuel 1774 1839 3000 6000 10000 17000 19000 19000 1703
    (4)    		 18.1 1.85 16.9 31.6 13.4
    Details Architecture Classic and Early Christian Slater, John 1847 1924 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 54084
    (135)    		 18.1 1.66 14.3 48.4 11.0
    Details Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)    		 18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    Details Return of Tarzan Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 88607
    (221)    		 18.0 1.44 10.8 66.3 8.5
    Details Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 4000 6000 9000 13000 16000 22000 65413
    (163)    		 18.0 1.35 9.2 74.4 7.3
    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 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 Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)    		 18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    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 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 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 Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut Anonymous 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 22000 132745
    (331)    		 17.9 1.72 15.0 42.8 11.7
    Details Textiles and Clothing Watson, Kate Heintz 4000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 41633
    (104)    		 17.9 1.52 11.6 59.8 9.4
    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 South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir 1874 1922 2000 4000 8000 10000 14000 17000 144681
    (361)    		 17.8 1.47 11.0 64.4 8.7
    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 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 The Career of Katherine Bush Glyn, Elinor 1864 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 19000 105388
    (263)    		 17.8 1.46 11.2 65.4 8.6
    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 Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Beard, Daniel Carter 1850 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 50042
    (125)    		 17.8 1.39 10.1 71.4 7.7
    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 Andersen's Fairy Tales Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 55132
    (137)    		 17.7 1.36 9.6 73.4 7.4
    Details David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)    		 17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)    		 17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    Details John Deere's Steel Plow Kendall, Edward C. 3000 5000 7000 8000 10000 15000 5509
    (13)    		 17.7 1.53 12.1 59.4 9.4

    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.