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 | 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 | The Velveteen Rabbit | Bianco, Margery Williams | 1880 | 1944 | 1000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 |
3965 (9) |
16.2 | 1.33 | 8.3 | 77.5 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Rainbow Valley | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
79562 (198) |
12.6 | 1.41 | 7.9 | 75.1 | 5.9 | |
| Details | Orthodoxy | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
63665 (159) |
20.1 | 1.53 | 13.0 | 57.2 | 10.3 | |
| Details | The Gift of the Magi | Henry, O. | 1862 | 1910 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 14000 |
2038 (5) |
12.6 | 1.42 | 8.1 | 74.2 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas | Moore, Clement Clarke | 1779 | 1863 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
1086 (2) |
16.0 | 1.43 | 9.5 | 69.6 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases | Wells-Barnett, Ida B. | 1862 | 1931 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
9490 (23) |
22.0 | 1.56 | 13.9 | 52.8 | 11.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) | 1863 | 1943 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3926 (9) |
12.7 | 1.4 | 8.0 | 75.4 | 5.9 | |
| Details | New Atlantis | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
15693 (39) |
33.2 | 1.42 | 17.1 | 52.8 | 14.2 | |
| Details | Plutarch's Lives, Volume I | Plutarch | Stewart, Aubrey | 46 (1844) | 120 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184023 (460) |
32.8 | 1.53 | 18.6 | 44.0 | 15.3 |
| Details | Father Goriot | Balzac, Honoré de | Marriage, Ellen | 1799 | 1850 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103094 (257) |
15.2 | 1.44 | 9.6 | 70.0 | 7.3 |
| Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
| Details | Antiquities of the Jews | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
531622 (1329) |
37.5 | 1.46 | 19.8 | 44.8 | 16.3 |
| Details | Tarzan of the Apes | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
84994 (212) |
19.6 | 1.45 | 11.4 | 64.4 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
37289 (93) |
15.6 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] | Lehmann, Lilli | Aldrich, Richard | 1848 (1863) | 1929 (1937) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
31812 (79) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.2 | 50.7 | 12.5 |
| Details | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
93989 (234) |
16.5 | 1.48 | 10.6 | 65.0 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Thirty-Nine Steps | Buchan, John | 1875 | 1940 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
40737 (101) |
15.5 | 1.41 | 8.9 | 71.6 | 7.1 | |
| Details | Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete | Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de | 1769 | 1834 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
484139 (1210) |
22.4 | 1.6 | 15.6 | 48.9 | 12.0 | |
| Details | Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
145128 (362) |
32.5 | 1.6 | 19.5 | 38.3 | 16.0 | |
| Details | The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in | Engels, Friedrich | Kelley, Florence | 1820 (1859) | 1895 (1932) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
114426 (286) |
27.4 | 1.62 | 17.1 | 42.3 | 14.2 |
| Details | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25355 (63) |
21.4 | 1.44 | 12.2 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion | Ellis, Havelock | 1859 | 1939 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
162979 (407) |
21.7 | 1.68 | 15.6 | 42.9 | 12.7 | |
| Details | The Chessmen of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
87139 (217) |
17.6 | 1.44 | 10.7 | 67.4 | 8.2 | |
| Details | The Land That Time Forgot | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
36905 (92) |
20.0 | 1.44 | 11.3 | 64.7 | 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 | Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World | Cook, James | 1728 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
220361 (550) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.3 | 62.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Alexander | 1757 | 1804 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
191873 (479) |
31.9 | 1.69 | 20.8 | 31.4 | 16.8 | |
| Details | Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor | Upham, Charles Wentworth | 1802 | 1875 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
294773 (736) |
22.0 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 52.6 | 11.4 | |
| Details | The Pillar of Light | Tracy, Louis | 1863 | 1928 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
79534 (198) |
13.2 | 1.47 | 9.1 | 69.4 | 6.9 | |
| Details | Merlin A Poem | Robinson, Edwin Arlington | 1869 | 1935 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
21993 (54) |
29.6 | 1.35 | 14.5 | 62.2 | 11.9 | |
| Details | The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) | Duncker, Max | Abbott, Evelyn | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
140000 (350) |
16.9 | 1.57 | 12.8 | 56.8 | 9.5 | ||
| Details | A Short History of H.M.S. Victory | Wharton, William James Lloyd | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
15824 (39) |
28.9 | 1.52 | 16.8 | 49.3 | 13.6 | |||
| 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 | Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers | Winks, William Edward | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
99421 (248) |
20.5 | 1.55 | 13.5 | 54.9 | 10.7 | |||
| Details | The jungle book | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 25000 |
51432 (128) |
16.6 | 1.34 | 8.4 | 76.7 | 6.7 | |
| Details | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 19000 |
26821 (67) |
16.4 | 1.36 | 8.7 | 74.9 | 6.9 | |
| Details | How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so | Williams, Archibald | 1871 | 1934 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70756 (176) |
16.5 | 1.56 | 11.6 | 58.0 | 9.3 | |
| Details | Peter and Wendy | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
47114 (117) |
14.8 | 1.36 | 8.4 | 76.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42069 (105) |
16.3 | 1.4 | 9.8 | 71.5 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Triplanetary | Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) | 1890 | 1965 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56328 (140) |
17.4 | 1.56 | 12.1 | 57.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
| 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 | History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent | Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) | 1873 | 1930 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 23000 |
113094 (282) |
27.4 | 1.61 | 17.3 | 43.2 | 14.0 | |
| Details | The Art of War | Sunzi | Giles, Lionel | (1875) | (1958) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
10489 (26) |
11.5 | 1.53 | 9.9 | 65.9 | 6.9 |
| Details | Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience | Matthews, Ike | 1857 | 1913 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
14490 (36) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.8 | 11.0 | |
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.