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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 Royal Picture Alphabet Leighton, John 1822 1912 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 5109
    (12)
    17.3 1.49 11.1 63.1 8.7
    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 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 King Solomon's Mines Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 81742
    (204)
    19.7 1.41 11.1 67.8 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 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 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 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 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 The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy, Leo, graf Tucker, Benjamin R. 1828 1910 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 63962
    (159)
    17.1 1.47 11.0 65.1 8.4
    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 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 52382
    (130)
    19.1 1.41 11.0 67.9 8.5
    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 Les Misérables Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 562958
    (1407)
    15.6 1.5 10.9 64.1 8.2
    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 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 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 A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Cutter, Calvin 1807 1872 4000 6000 11000 15000 19000 24000 134981
    (337)
    10.9 1.62 10.9 58.6 7.8
    Details The Possessed (The Devils) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 252520
    (631)
    15.5 1.5 10.9 64.3 8.1
    Details Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)
    16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    Details The Lost World Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 75381
    (188)
    17.0 1.47 10.9 65.2 8.4
    Details Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 10000 15000 18000 24000 102277
    (255)
    15.2 1.52 10.9 62.5 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 A Watcher in The Woods Sharp, Dallas Lore 1870 1929 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 30932
    (77)
    20.5 1.42 10.9 65.8 9.2
    Details The Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration; with Observations on Wilson, Thomas 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 22000 94225
    (235)
    9.4 1.66 10.9 57.1 7.6
    Details Japanese Fairy Tales Ozaki, Yei Theodora 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 70489
    (176)
    20.6 1.36 10.9 70.7 8.5
    Details The Innocence of Father Brown Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 18000 78581
    (196)
    17.7 1.46 10.9 65.5 8.5
    Details The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5
    Details Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 348306
    (870)
    16.8 1.46 10.8 66.2 8.2
    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 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 Latin for Beginners D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) 1860 1940 7000 13000 20000 22000 23000 24000 91186
    (227)
    8.2 1.74 10.8 51.2 8.1
    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 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 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 This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 16000 79512
    (198)
    14.9 1.52 10.8 63.0 8.2
    Details The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 114027
    (285)
    17.3 1.47 10.8 65.1 8.5
    Details The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 9893
    (24)
    16.6 1.48 10.8 64.8 8.3
    Details Erotica Romana Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 4000 7000 11000 14000 17000 24000 6681
    (16)
    16.7 1.48 10.8 64.5 8.4
    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 The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 5000 9000 12000 17000 21000 227889
    (569)
    14.7 1.48 10.7 66.6 7.6
    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 Steam, Its Generation and Use Babcock & Wilcox Company 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 20000 120558
    (301)
    9.8 1.67 10.7 56.0 7.9
    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 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 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown Ingram, J. H. (James Henry) (1774) (1850) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 93358
    (233)
    16.3 1.46 10.7 67.2 7.9
    Details Four Arthurian Romances Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. Comfort, William Wistar (1874) (1955) 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 20000 189648
    (474)
    20.4 1.34 10.7 72.4 8.2
    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 Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation Thomssen, E. G. 4000 7000 14000 17000 18000 22000 59096
    (147)
    9.9 1.67 10.7 55.9 7.9
    Details Handbook of Embroidery Higgin, L. 4000 5000 8000 14000 16000 22000 14622
    (36)
    14.0 1.57 10.7 59.9 8.4

    Notes:

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    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.
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    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.