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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 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 The Art of Politicks Bramston, James 1694 1744 4000 8000 12000 17000 20000 24000 10432
    (26)
    16.9 1.68 13.6 47.7 10.8
    Details Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 348306
    (870)
    16.8 1.46 10.8 66.2 8.2
    Details The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)
    16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    Details The Time Machine Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32111
    (80)
    16.8 1.5 10.8 62.6 8.7
    Details Very Short Stories and Verses For Children Clifford, W. K., Mrs. 1929 1000 2000 6000 8000 11000 16000 14400
    (36)
    16.8 1.3 7.9 79.9 6.3
    Details North and South Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810 1865 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 17000 179050
    (447)
    16.8 1.41 10.0 70.3 7.6
    Details The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 175708
    (439)
    16.8 1.62 12.6 53.1 10.0
    Details Bleak House Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 347904
    (869)
    16.7 1.45 10.3 67.2 8.0
    Details The Adventure of the Cardboard Box Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 8609
    (21)
    16.7 1.41 9.7 70.6 7.6
    Details The Door in the Wall and Other Stories Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 42660
    (106)
    16.7 1.43 9.8 69.0 7.8
    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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite Various 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 169040
    (422)
    16.7 1.66 13.4 49.8 10.5
    Details Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave Aveling, Eleanor Marx 1821 (1855) 1880 (1898) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 115415
    (288)
    16.6 1.45 10.4 66.9 8.1
    Details Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26275
    (65)
    16.6 1.36 8.7 75.1 6.9
    Details The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 9893
    (24)
    16.6 1.48 10.8 64.8 8.3
    Details The jungle book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 51432
    (128)
    16.6 1.34 8.4 76.7 6.7
    Details The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine 1870 1922 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 107279
    (268)
    16.5 1.47 10.2 66.1 8.1
    Details The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 4000 6000 6000 8000 9000 1158
    (2)
    16.5 1.51 10.3 62.5 8.7
    Details Life Is a Dream Calderón de la Barca, Pedro FitzGerald, Edward 1600 (1809) 1681 (1883) 3000 5000 9000 13000 16000 19000 17220
    (43)
    16.5 1.38 9.4 73.3 7.1
    Details The Mystery of Edwin Drood Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 93989
    (234)
    16.5 1.48 10.6 65.0 8.3
    Details Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 62978
    (157)
    16.5 1.54 11.3 59.5 9.0
    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 Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 115618
    (289)
    16.4 1.49 11.1 64.4 8.4
    Details Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims La Rochefoucauld, François duc de Willis Bund, J. W. (John William) 1613 (1843) 1680 (1928) 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 34123
    (85)
    16.4 1.53 11.9 61.2 8.8
    Details Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875) (1936) 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 18000 491525
    (1228)
    16.4 1.38 9.5 73.6 7.1
    Details Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26821
    (67)
    16.4 1.36 8.7 74.9 6.9
    Details Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)
    16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    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 Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia 1882 1941 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 134240
    (335)
    16.4 1.44 10.1 67.9 7.9
    Details My Antonia Cather, Willa 1873 1947 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 80807
    (202)
    16.3 1.42 9.4 70.2 7.5
    Details The Viking Blood A Story of Seafaring Wallace, Frederick William 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 22000 138112
    (345)
    16.3 1.45 9.7 67.8 7.8
    Details American Fairy Tales Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 31719
    (79)
    16.3 1.41 9.7 70.6 7.5
    Details The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown Ingram, J. H. (James Henry) (1774) (1850) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 93358
    (233)
    16.3 1.46 10.7 67.2 7.9
    Details Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Hands, A. F. Morris 4000 6000 9000 13000 19000 22000 5892
    (14)
    16.3 1.56 11.6 58.6 9.1
    Details Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 42069
    (105)
    16.3 1.4 9.8 71.5 7.3
    Details Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Dir Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) 1871 1954 4000 6000 9000 14000 17000 21000 10808
    (27)
    16.3 1.46 10.1 67.1 7.9
    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 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 994
    (2)
    16.3 1.54 11.0 60.2 8.9
    Details Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous 4000 4000 9000 14000 15000 17000 20223
    (50)
    16.2 1.38 8.7 73.6 7.0
    Details The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 57869
    (144)
    16.2 1.46 10.3 67.1 7.9
    Details The Velveteen Rabbit Bianco, Margery Williams 1880 1944 1000 4000 7000 8000 11000 13000 3965
    (9)
    16.2 1.33 8.3 77.5 6.5
    Details The Story of the Three Little Pigs Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) 1862 1940 2000 2000 5000 7000 7000 9000 1052
    (2)
    16.2 1.3 8.3 80.4 6.1
    Details Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) 1813 1897 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 82835
    (207)
    16.2 1.43 10.0 69.8 7.5
    Details Dodo Wonders Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867 1940 2000 4000 9000 15000 15000 16000 64785
    (161)
    16.2 1.45 10.0 68.1 7.8
    Details The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5
    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 Ethica. English Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632 1677 3000 4000 6000 9000 13000 17000 87693
    (219)
    16.0 1.56 12.4 59.1 9.0
    Details A Course In Wood Turning ?-Milton, Archie Seldon 1887 3000 5000 9000 11000 11000 14000 13683
    (34)
    16.0 1.43 9.9 69.3 7.6
    Details Little Black Sambo Bannerman, Helen 1862 1946 4000 5000 12000 12000 12000 12000 1153
    (2)
    16.0 1.41 9.0 71.2 7.3

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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.