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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 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 Dubliners Joyce, James 1882 1941 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 66695
    (166)
    14.3 1.43 9.0 71.7 6.8
    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 Middlemarch Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 311801
    (779)
    20.7 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.1
    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 Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 17000 74768
    (186)
    22.5 1.55 14.3 52.9 11.5
    Details The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 65762
    (164)
    32.0 1.54 18.0 44.5 15.0
    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 The Prince Machiavelli, Niccolò Marriott, W. K. (William K.) 1469 1527 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 49271
    (123)
    38.0 1.54 20.8 38.2 17.4
    Details Second Treatise of Government Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56126
    (140)
    33.0 1.51 18.6 45.7 15.1
    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 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 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 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 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Equiano, Olaudah 1745 1797 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 81664
    (204)
    29.1 1.46 15.7 53.5 13.0
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    Details A Treatise of Human Nature Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 225521
    (563)
    31.6 1.65 19.8 35.3 16.2
    Details Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Edwards, Jonathan 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 70313
    (175)
    25.6 1.49 15.3 55.1 11.9
    Details Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 37389
    (93)
    15.6 1.47 10.0 66.8 7.8
    Details A Modest Proposal Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 3000 4000 7000 9000 14000 18000 3406
    (8)
    50.8 1.53 25.1 25.5 22.3
    Details Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 1877 1962 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 20000 39112
    (97)
    21.2 1.44 12.4 63.5 9.7
    Details English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- Long, William J. (William Joseph) 1867 1952 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 204834
    (512)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.5 12.2
    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 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 Best Russian Short Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 94443
    (236)
    15.3 1.47 10.4 66.6 7.8
    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 The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 78609
    (196)
    12.1 1.43 8.3 73.3 6.0
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    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 Nationalism Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 14000 26616
    (66)
    24.0 1.56 15.2 50.2 12.2
    Details On the Trail of The Immigrant Steiner, Edward A. 1866 1856 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 87463
    (218)
    28.2 1.54 16.4 47.9 13.6
    Details The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat Celnart, Elisabeth 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 45211
    (113)
    26.3 1.56 16.2 48.0 13.1
    Details Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot Craig, Austin 1872 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 62400
    (156)
    29.6 1.64 18.6 38.3 15.3
    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 The Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 140685
    (351)
    15.8 1.44 9.9 69.1 7.5
    Details Phaedrus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 38099
    (95)
    30.0 1.5 16.9 49.6 13.8
    Details Heretics Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 64184
    (160)
    21.1 1.55 13.8 54.0 11.0
    Details The First Men in the Moon Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 67768
    (169)
    15.6 1.49 10.2 65.2 8.0
    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 Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) 1805 1875 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 370669
    (926)
    20.0 1.36 10.4 71.6 8.2
    Details The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 Perrault, Charles Welsh, Charles 1628 (1850) 1703 (1914) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 18345
    (45)
    23.2 1.36 11.8 67.9 9.6
    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 Uncle Vanya Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860 1904 2000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 16391
    (40)
    8.8 1.44 7.1 76.2 4.8
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 92171
    (230)
    28.4 1.6 17.7 43.0 14.3
    Details Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860 1937 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 12000 1073
    (2)
    20.2 1.37 10.7 70.8 8.4
    Details Turner Monkhouse, William Cosmo 1840 1901 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 39762
    (99)
    26.3 1.52 15.5 51.2 12.7
    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 Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa New York Central Railroad Company 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 48248
    (120)
    14.7 1.63 12.4 53.8 9.4
    Details The Phantom of the Opera Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 84224
    (210)
    14.8 1.44 9.6 69.6 7.2
    Details The Elements of Style Strunk, William 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 13203
    (33)
    15.7 1.65 13.1 51.3 10.0

    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.