This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 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 | On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Carlyle, Thomas | 1795 | 1881 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
87919 (219) |
22.6 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.1 | 10.8 | |
Details | The Grammar of English Grammars | Brown, Goold | 1791 | 1857 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
875923 (2189) |
10.3 | 1.55 | 9.6 | 65.3 | 6.7 | |
Details | The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 | Cooper, James Fenimore | 1789 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
148091 (370) |
24.8 | 1.51 | 14.8 | 54.0 | 11.9 | |
Details | Don Juan | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
124309 (310) |
37.0 | 1.39 | 17.6 | 52.1 | 15.2 | |
Details | The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
121886 (304) |
20.6 | 1.42 | 11.7 | 66.2 | 9.1 | |
Details | The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
200546 (501) |
34.4 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 36.7 | 16.7 | |
Details | The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
184276 (460) |
22.1 | 1.62 | 15.5 | 47.0 | 12.2 | |
Details | Grimm's Fairy Stories | Grimm, Wilhelm | 1786 | 1859 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
50632 (126) |
23.0 | 1.31 | 11.1 | 72.8 | 8.8 | |
Details | Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm | Grimm, Wilhelm | Crane, Lucy | 1786 (1842) | 1859 (1882) | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
88523 (221) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.5 | 75.7 | 8.2 |
Details | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Grimm, Jacob | 1785 | 1863 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
100994 (252) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.4 | 76.2 | 8.2 | |
Details | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
Details | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Irving, Washington | 1783 | 1859 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
12209 (30) |
35.0 | 1.51 | 18.3 | 43.9 | 15.8 | |
Details | On War — Volume 1 | Clausewitz, Carl von | Graham, J. J., Colonel | 1780 | 1831 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
106755 (266) |
34.3 | 1.59 | 20.0 | 37.3 | 16.6 |
Details | Roget's Thesaurus | Roget, Peter Mark | 1779 | 1869 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 | 21000 | 23000 | 25000 |
180410 (451) |
9.1 | 1.94 | 13.6 | 33.6 | 10.8 | |
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 | Précis de l'art de la guerre. English | Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de | Mendell, George H. (George Henry) | 1779 (1831) | 1869 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
139359 (348) |
21.4 | 1.63 | 15.5 | 46.9 | 12.0 |
Details | Persuasion | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
82646 (206) |
22.7 | 1.49 | 13.7 | 57.7 | 10.9 | |
Details | Sense and Sensibility | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
117920 (294) |
24.3 | 1.51 | 14.9 | 54.1 | 11.8 | |
Details | Emma | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
155516 (388) |
20.8 | 1.47 | 12.4 | 61.1 | 9.9 | |
Details | Mansfield Park | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
157622 (394) |
22.6 | 1.48 | 13.3 | 59.1 | 10.6 | |
Details | Pride and Prejudice | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
119679 (299) |
19.8 | 1.52 | 13.0 | 58.1 | 10.1 | |
Details | Northanger Abbey | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
76450 (191) |
21.1 | 1.5 | 13.2 | 58.4 | 10.4 | |
Details | Lady Susan | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 |
22830 (57) |
23.7 | 1.54 | 14.6 | 52.6 | 11.8 | |
Details | Sense and Sensibility | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
120454 (301) |
22.9 | 1.52 | 14.4 | 55.1 | 11.3 | |
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 | 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 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
768172 (1920) |
21.8 | 1.5 | 13.4 | 58.0 | 10.6 | |
Details | The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred | Morgan, William | 1774 | 1826 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
112150 (280) |
13.8 | 1.51 | 10.3 | 65.4 | 7.6 | |
Details | The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography | Butler, Samuel | 1774 | 1839 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 17000 | 19000 | 19000 |
1703 (4) |
18.1 | 1.85 | 16.9 | 31.6 | 13.4 | |
Details | Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1772 | 1834 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
21413 (53) |
20.3 | 1.31 | 9.8 | 75.3 | 7.8 | |
Details | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1772 | 1834 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
3850 (9) |
15.8 | 1.28 | 7.4 | 82.7 | 5.7 | |
Details | Rob Roy — Complete | Scott, Walter, Sir | 1771 | 1832 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 18000 | 24000 |
190693 (476) |
29.9 | 1.53 | 17.0 | 46.9 | 14.2 | |
Details | Ivanhoe | Scott, Walter, Sir | 1771 | 1832 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
190957 (477) |
28.7 | 1.49 | 16.0 | 51.5 | 13.2 | |
Details | The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 | Wordsworth, William | 1770 | 1850 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
118027 (295) |
29.5 | 1.48 | 15.9 | 52.0 | 13.3 | |
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 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Ann Ward | 1764 | 1823 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
289394 (723) |
27.3 | 1.53 | 16.5 | 49.8 | 13.1 | |
Details | The Robbers | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
49365 (123) |
9.5 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 76.3 | 5.0 | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Songs of Innocence and Experience | Blake, William | 1757 | 1827 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 |
5549 (13) |
18.8 | 1.31 | 8.8 | 77.1 | 7.2 | |
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 | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Taylor, Bayard | 1749 (1825) | 1832 (1878) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
36297 (90) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.6 | 71.3 | 6.6 |
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 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 | Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss, Johann David | 1743 | 1818 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
126097 (315) |
24.6 | 1.47 | 14.0 | 57.9 | 11.3 | |
Details | Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G | Boswell, James | 1740 | 1795 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
214740 (536) |
20.2 | 1.52 | 12.9 | 57.9 | 10.2 | |
Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
21504 (53) |
31.1 | 1.55 | 18.1 | 44.2 | 14.8 |
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.