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 | Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi | Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von | Huggard, E. M. | 1646 | 1716 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 20000 |
184166 (460) |
24.4 | 1.56 | 15.6 | 50.1 | 12.3 |
| Details | Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden | (1828) | (1889) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
127694 (319) |
14.6 | 1.42 | 9.1 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| Details | Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma | 1869 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
67167 (167) |
21.2 | 1.64 | 15.1 | 46.2 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo | Machen, Arthur | 1725 (1863) | 1798 (1947) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
1251067 (3127) |
20.8 | 1.46 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.7 |
| Details | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1730 | 1774 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
22563 (56) |
8.3 | 1.42 | 6.0 | 78.2 | 4.4 | |
| 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 | The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do | Popular Mechanics Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
231737 (579) |
15.1 | 1.44 | 9.7 | 69.8 | 7.3 | |||
| Details | The Wendigo | Blackwood, Algernon | 1869 | 1951 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
18159 (45) |
21.0 | 1.49 | 12.9 | 59.1 | 10.2 | |
| Details | Biblical Geography and History | Kent, Charles Foster | 1867 | 1925 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 22000 |
99638 (249) |
22.8 | 1.62 | 15.4 | 46.3 | 12.5 | |
| Details | Short Stories | Dostoievski, Fiodor | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
79953 (199) |
15.4 | 1.48 | 10.3 | 66.3 | 7.8 | |||
| Details | The American Horsewoman | Karr, Elizabeth | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70753 (176) |
27.7 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.0 | 12.6 | |||
| 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 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 | A Damsel in Distress | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
76064 (190) |
11.6 | 1.46 | 8.3 | 71.8 | 6.1 | |
| Details | What's Wrong with the World | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
59904 (149) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 52.8 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Cautionary Tales for Children | Belloc, Hilaire | 1870 | 1953 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
2620 (6) |
16.4 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Souls of Black Folk | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) | 1868 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
68801 (172) |
25.9 | 1.53 | 14.9 | 51.3 | 12.5 | |
| Details | Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Harvey, Alexander Miller | 1844 (1867) | 1900 (1928) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
36537 (91) |
32.2 | 1.65 | 19.7 | 34.9 | 16.4 |
| Details | The Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph | Belloc, Hilaire | 1864 (1870) | 1938 (1953) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
25763 (64) |
23.0 | 1.28 | 10.7 | 75.3 | 8.5 |
| Details | Ghostly Phenomena | O'Donnell, Elliott | 1872 | 1965 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 15000 |
34834 (87) |
25.6 | 1.56 | 15.5 | 48.9 | 12.8 | |
| Details | The Burglars' Club A Romance in Twelve Chronicles | Hering, Henry A. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
51301 (128) |
11.1 | 1.49 | 8.8 | 69.2 | 6.4 | |||
| Details | Anabasis | Xenophon | Dakyns, Henry Graham | 431BC (1838) | 350BC (1911) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
93859 (234) |
26.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 55.8 | 12.0 |
| Details | The Pencil of Nature | Talbot, William Henry Fox | 1800 | 1877 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
9368 (23) |
19.4 | 1.6 | 13.8 | 52.0 | 10.8 | |
| Details | The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and | Mackey, Albert Gallatin | 1807 | 1881 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70062 (175) |
26.1 | 1.65 | 17.7 | 40.8 | 14.1 | |
| Details | Alexander the Great Makers of History | Abbott, Jacob | 1803 | 1879 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
52859 (132) |
23.5 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 48.0 | 12.4 | |
| Details | Through Welsh Doorways | Marks, Jeannette Augustus | 1875 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 23000 |
41010 (102) |
15.1 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 7.1 | |
| 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 | |||
| Details | Democracy in America — Volume 2 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
140667 (351) |
33.1 | 1.64 | 20.1 | 34.3 | 16.7 |
| Details | The Gardener | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
13795 (34) |
14.2 | 1.28 | 7.1 | 83.9 | 5.1 | |
| Details | The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & | Cody, Sherwin | 1868 | 1959 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
59114 (147) |
18.7 | 1.52 | 12.4 | 59.0 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Voyage au centre de la terre. English | Verne, Jules | Malleson, Frederick Amadeus | 1828 (1819) | 1905 (1897) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
73544 (183) |
14.7 | 1.51 | 10.6 | 63.9 | 8.0 |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
19419 (48) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.5 | 45.4 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
| Details | Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying | Hooke, Robert | 1635 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
147089 (367) |
48.8 | 1.46 | 23.6 | 33.9 | 20.7 | |
| Details | Far from the Madding Crowd | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
135621 (339) |
16.3 | 1.47 | 10.3 | 66.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries | Caesar, Julius | McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) | 100BC | 44BC | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
158969 (397) |
33.9 | 1.55 | 19.3 | 41.0 | 16.0 |
| Details | Defenders of Democracy | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
12711 (31) |
5.7 | 1.71 | 9.4 | 56.4 | 6.8 | |||
| Details | Sport Royal and other stories | Hope, Anthony | 1863 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27491 (68) |
10.4 | 1.48 | 8.3 | 70.8 | 6.0 | |
| Details | The Mill on the Floss | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
204609 (511) |
22.6 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 62.3 | 10.2 | |
| Details | Ponce de Leon The Rise of the Argentine Republic | Pilling, William | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
209446 (523) |
22.0 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.8 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Battle of Life A Love Story | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 16000 |
29592 (73) |
14.7 | 1.45 | 9.4 | 69.5 | 7.2 | |
| 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 | Who Goes There! | Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) | 1865 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
72754 (181) |
12.0 | 1.47 | 8.7 | 70.2 | 6.4 | |
| Details | Love and Freindship [sic] | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32937 (82) |
26.6 | 1.53 | 16.0 | 50.0 | 12.9 | |
| Details | The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man | Patañjali | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 20000 |
30099 (75) |
20.8 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 54.3 | 10.9 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Workhouse Characters and other sketches of the life of the poor. | Nevinson, Margaret Wynne | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
36252 (90) |
23.5 | 1.41 | 12.2 | 63.7 | 10.2 | |||
| Details | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 24000 |
54516 (136) |
12.9 | 1.43 | 8.6 | 72.6 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Black Riders and Other Lines | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3953 (9) |
11.7 | 1.36 | 6.7 | 80.3 | 5.0 | |
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.