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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 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 Mertvye dushi. English Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Hogarth, D. J. 1809 1852 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 140991
    (352)    		 20.0 1.52 12.8 58.0 10.1
    Details How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, so Williams, Archibald 1871 1934 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 20000 70756
    (176)    		 16.5 1.56 11.6 58.0 9.3
    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 Masque of the Red Death Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 14000 18000 2384
    (5)    		 23.6 1.48 14.1 57.9 11.1
    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 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 Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)    		 22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8
    Details The Personality of American Cities Hungerford, Edward 1875 1948 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 105425
    (263)    		 21.1 1.51 12.8 57.8 10.4
    Details Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska Gillis, Charles J. 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 10605
    (26)    		 21.6 1.5 13.0 57.8 10.6
    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 The Grand Inquisitor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) 1821 (1831) 1881 (1891) 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 15000 9588
    (23)    		 25.6 1.46 14.5 57.7 11.6
    Details The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec Aristotle 384BC 322BC 3000 6000 10000 15000 18000 23000 107312
    (268)    		 26.1 1.45 14.5 57.5 11.7
    Details Warlord of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56940
    (142)    		 26.0 1.45 13.9 57.5 11.7
    Details The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 187931
    (469)    		 24.6 1.47 14.0 57.4 11.4
    Details Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 6000 7000 11000 15000 15145
    (37)    		 23.0 1.49 13.8 57.4 11.0
    Details The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 86554
    (216)    		 26.2 1.45 14.5 57.4 11.8
    Details Orthodoxy Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 63665
    (159)    		 20.1 1.53 13.0 57.2 10.3
    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 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 The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)    		 30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book 7000 16000 20000 22000 24000 25000 42736
    (106)    		 7.5 1.68 9.8 56.9 7.2
    Details Ossian in Germany Bibliography, General Survey, Ossian's Influence upon Klopstoc Tombo, Rudolf 1875 1914 3000 7000 11000 15000 16000 23000 48589
    (121)    		 5.9 1.7 9.7 56.9 6.8
    Details The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) Duncker, Max Abbott, Evelyn 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 22000 140000
    (350)    		 16.9 1.57 12.8 56.8 9.5
    Details Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)    		 17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    Details The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 24000 7059
    (17)    		 19.1 1.55 12.7 56.5 10.1
    Details From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 8000 11000 12000 20000 90543
    (226)    		 15.8 1.59 12.5 56.4 9.3
    Details Defenders of Democracy Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 12711
    (31)    		 5.7 1.71 9.4 56.4 6.8
    Details The Spell of Belgium Anderson, Isabel 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 21000 89821
    (224)    		 21.1 1.53 13.4 56.3 10.6
    Details Gorgias Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 59271
    (148)    		 23.6 1.5 14.7 56.3 11.3
    Details Modern Essays Beerbohm, Max, Sir 1872 1956 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 83522
    (208)    		 20.8 1.53 13.1 56.3 10.6
    Details The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Allen, Emory Adams 1853 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 206643
    (516)    		 18.2 1.56 13.0 56.2 9.9
    Details Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) 1851 1935 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 165374
    (413)    		 21.2 1.53 13.7 56.2 10.7
    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 Walking Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 17000 12032
    (30)    		 24.9 1.48 14.2 56.1 11.6
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 215540
    (538)    		 24.7 1.49 14.7 56.0 11.6
    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 Phaedo Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 42694
    (106)    		 26.6 1.46 15.2 56.0 12.1
    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 Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 91306
    (228)    		 21.0 1.53 13.6 55.9 10.7
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)    		 21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    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 El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)    		 19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details Etiquette Post, Emily 1873 1960 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 200614
    (501)    		 23.2 1.51 13.7 55.5 11.3
    Details Human Animals Hamel, Frank 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 97180
    (242)    		 23.3 1.51 14.0 55.5 11.3
    Details The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 33314
    (83)    		 20.7 1.54 13.4 55.5 10.7
    Details A Child's History of England Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 161921
    (404)    		 29.2 1.44 15.5 55.5 12.8
    Details Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise Maginnis, Charles Donagh 1867 1955 3000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 16817
    (42)    		 14.9 1.61 12.1 55.5 9.2
    Details Walden Thoreau, Henry David 1817 1862 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 114891
    (287)    		 27.9 1.46 15.0 55.4 12.5
    Details Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) (1856) (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 25000 37282
    (93)    		 19.9 1.55 11.9 55.4 10.5

    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.