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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 Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 20000 6977
    (17)    		 29.1 1.62 17.8 40.3 14.9
    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 Book of Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1805 1844 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 17000 275021
    (687)    		 35.8 1.39 17.5 53.1 14.7
    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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Keats, John 1795 1821 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 24000 38774
    (96)    		 11.3 1.43 7.9 74.1 5.7
    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 The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Trusler, John 1735 1820 4000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 41272
    (103)    		 26.5 1.58 16.4 46.4 13.4
    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 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 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 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 Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 21504
    (53)    		 31.1 1.55 18.1 44.2 14.8
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 92171
    (230)    		 28.4 1.6 17.7 43.0 14.3
    Details Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 71992
    (179)    		 33.4 1.51 18.4 45.1 15.3
    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 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 The Critique of Pure Reason Kant, Immanuel Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) 1724 (1830) 1804 (1902) 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 18000 206467
    (516)    		 35.8 1.72 22.9 24.9 18.7
    Details The Critique of Practical Reason Kant, Immanuel Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill 1724 (1829) 1804 (1913) 3000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 62637
    (156)    		 50.4 1.64 27.2 16.6 23.4
    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 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 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 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 161987
    (404)    		 29.8 1.6 18.6 41.0 15.0
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 152778
    (381)    		 27.5 1.58 17.3 44.9 13.8
    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 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 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18000 10194
    (25)    		 7.3 1.75 11.5 51.8 7.8
    Details History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 4000 6000 9000 13000 16000 21000 256688
    (641)    		 18.6 1.72 15.8 42.3 12.0

    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.