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 | The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record | Burnham, George P. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
66073 (165) |
17.7 | 1.54 | 11.9 | 58.9 | 9.5 | |||
| Details | Architecture Gothic and Renaissance | Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) | 1830 | 1903 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
54623 (136) |
17.7 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.1 | 11.0 | |
| 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 Best American Humorous Short Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
101352 (253) |
17.6 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 62.4 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | The Trial | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
82679 (206) |
17.6 | 1.4 | 10.4 | 70.4 | 7.8 |
| 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 | Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 19000 |
14288 (35) |
17.6 | 1.57 | 12.3 | 56.2 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Descent of Man | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
298564 (746) |
17.6 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.4 | 10.9 | |
| Details | An Elementary Study of Insects | Haseman, Leonard | 1884 | 1969 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
17942 (44) |
17.6 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.5 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Tales of Folk and Fairies | Pyle, Katharine | 1863 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
54127 (135) |
17.5 | 1.29 | 8.6 | 79.7 | 6.5 | |
| Details | The Madman | Gibran, Khalil | 1883 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
7034 (17) |
17.5 | 1.36 | 9.1 | 74.3 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form | Hibberd, Shirley | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
40114 (100) |
17.5 | 1.59 | 12.8 | 54.9 | 10.0 | |||
| Details | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 17000 |
39505 (98) |
17.4 | 1.33 | 9.3 | 76.3 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | 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 | Short-Stories | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
73428 (183) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.6 | 61.2 | 9.0 | ||||
| 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 | A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
134550 (336) |
17.3 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 67.2 | 8.2 | |
| Details | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
8575 (21) |
17.3 | 1.3 | 8.5 | 79.1 | 6.5 | |
| 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 | Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I | Spenser, Edmund | 1552 | 1599 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 | 24000 |
70160 (175) |
17.3 | 1.43 | 10.4 | 68.1 | 8.1 | |
| 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 Monk; a romance | Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) | 1775 | 1818 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
136838 (342) |
17.3 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 58.1 | 9.5 | |
| Details | The House on the Borderland | Hodgson, William Hope | 1877 | 1918 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
50522 (126) |
17.3 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 65.1 | 8.5 | |
| Details | Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
28603 (71) |
17.3 | 1.38 | 9.0 | 72.8 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Chef d'oeuvre inconnu. English | Balzac, Honoré de | 1799 | 1850 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
10624 (26) |
17.3 | 1.44 | 10.4 | 67.3 | 8.2 | |
| Details | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | 1811 | 1896 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
180196 (450) |
17.2 | 1.42 | 10.1 | 69.0 | 7.9 | |
| Details | Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
169054 (422) |
17.2 | 1.52 | 11.8 | 60.6 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews | United States. Work Projects Administration | 2000 | 6000 | 9000 | 15000 | 20000 | 22000 |
126940 (317) |
17.2 | 1.35 | 8.8 | 75.6 | 7.0 | |||
| Details | The Art of Public Speaking | Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) | 1867 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
154880 (387) |
17.2 | 1.54 | 12.1 | 59.1 | 9.3 | |
| Details | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 |
991 (2) |
17.1 | 1.49 | 10.6 | 63.7 | 8.6 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | Garnett, Constance | 1860 (1861) | 1904 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
71033 (177) |
17.1 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 8.2 |
| Details | A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne | Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) | 1852 | 1923 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
96732 (241) |
17.1 | 1.41 | 10.0 | 70.0 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Poems and Songs of Robert Burns | Burns, Robert | 1759 | 1796 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 | 22000 | 24000 | 25000 |
125988 (314) |
17.1 | 1.38 | 8.6 | 73.1 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Around the World in 80 Days | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
62632 (156) |
17.0 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 60.3 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Poor Folk in Spain | Gordon, Cora | 1879 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
79151 (197) |
17.0 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 63.4 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Lord Jim | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
127361 (318) |
17.0 | 1.45 | 10.4 | 67.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint | 1225 | 1274 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
486564 (1216) |
17.0 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 58.7 | 9.3 | |
| Details | On the Sublime | Longinus, 1st cent. | Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) | (1913) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
28948 (72) |
17.0 | 1.6 | 13.0 | 54.3 | 9.9 | |
| 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 | 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 Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48890 (122) |
17.0 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 66.8 | 8.2 | |
| Details | Oliver Twist | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 17000 |
156033 (390) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 66.5 | 8.2 | |
| Details | The Turn of the Screw | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
41719 (104) |
16.9 | 1.43 | 10.2 | 69.1 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | Wuthering Heights | Brontë, Emily | 1818 | 1848 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
114539 (286) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 65.8 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi | Pierce, Ray Vaughn | 1840 | 1914 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 21000 |
381700 (954) |
16.9 | 1.71 | 14.4 | 45.3 | 11.1 | |
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.