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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 Encyclopedia of Needlework Dillmont, Thérèse de 1846 1890 4000 5000 10000 15000 22000 22000 126757
    (316)    		 14.1 1.42 8.7 72.4 6.7
    Details The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Digby, Kenelm 1603 1665 3000 6000 10000 14000 18000 23000 92490
    (231)    		 27.3 1.37 13.1 63.1 11.2
    Details Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Dickinson, Emily 1830 1886 4000 6000 10000 12000 14000 22000 30572
    (76)    		 13.2 1.44 8.9 71.7 6.6
    Details Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 17000 156033
    (390)    		 16.9 1.46 10.6 66.5 8.2
    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 A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 134550
    (336)    		 17.3 1.44 10.5 67.2 8.2
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 28431
    (71)    		 14.6 1.39 8.6 74.4 6.5
    Details Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 183813
    (459)    		 18.8 1.42 10.8 67.3 8.5
    Details David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 349774
    (874)    		 17.7 1.45 10.7 66.4 8.4
    Details The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 213290
    (533)    		 20.8 1.43 12.0 64.6 9.4
    Details Little Dorrit Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 332182
    (830)    		 18.1 1.47 11.2 64.5 8.8
    Details The Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 290649
    (726)    		 17.4 1.51 11.3 61.7 9.0
    Details Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 12000 17000 17000 319979
    (799)    		 15.6 1.46 10.0 67.8 7.7
    Details Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 24000 349083
    (872)    		 19.4 1.45 11.5 64.1 9.1
    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 The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 134572
    (336)    		 18.1 1.49 11.4 62.8 9.0
    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 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 Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 317769
    (794)    		 19.4 1.49 12.3 61.1 9.6
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 29106
    (72)    		 14.6 1.39 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details Second Variety Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 11000 15191
    (37)    		 6.3 1.41 5.1 81.4 3.5
    Details Beyond the Door Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 8000 9000 2451
    (6)    		 8.4 1.35 5.4 84.3 3.6
    Details Piper in the Woods Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 9000 14000 7221
    (18)    		 7.9 1.41 6.3 79.3 4.2
    Details The Skull Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 14000 14000 14000 7747
    (19)    		 7.0 1.39 5.4 81.9 3.6
    Details The Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)    		 7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    Details The Defenders Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 10000 14000 14000 8545
    (21)    		 8.9 1.44 6.9 76.2 4.9
    Details Beyond Lies the Wub Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 2682
    (6)    		 6.6 1.4 5.5 81.6 3.5
    Details The Crystal Crypt Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 12000 7313
    (18)    		 8.3 1.43 6.0 77.7 4.5
    Details The Eyes Have It Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 8000 9000 12000 1120
    (2)    		 9.8 1.53 8.5 67.8 6.2
    Details The Variable Man Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 18000 24824
    (62)    		 7.8 1.51 7.4 71.3 5.3
    Details Mr. Spaceship Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 4000 6000 7000 11000 10529
    (26)    		 7.7 1.44 6.3 77.2 4.4
    Details A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and P Dewey, Melvil 1851 1931 5000 8000 12000 15000 18000 23000 11325
    (28)    		 9.2 2.13 16.5 17.7 13.1
    Details Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 134869
    (337)    		 23.7 1.73 17.5 36.1 14.1
    Details Moral Principles in Education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 10720
    (26)    		 22.1 1.69 16.1 41.4 13.0
    Details Essays in Experimental Logic Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 6000 7000 9000 15000 107047
    (267)    		 25.9 1.71 18.1 36.3 14.6
    Details Psychology and Social Practice Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 8000 12000 7549
    (18)    		 27.6 1.75 19.3 30.7 15.8
    Details Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth Descartes, René 1596 1650 3000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 23024
    (57)    		 81.4 1.54 38.0 -5.7 34.3
    Details Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 17000 120387
    (300)    		 49.5 1.38 22.5 39.8 20.0
    Details A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while i Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 6000 9000 13000 15000 93796
    (234)    		 46.5 1.43 22.5 38.7 19.4
    Details The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel 1661 1731 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 16000 137615
    (344)    		 41.8 1.39 19.7 47.2 17.1
    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 Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman Davis, Rebecca Harding 1831 1910 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 14838
    (37)    		 13.6 1.38 7.8 76.2 6.0
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 21000 205539
    (513)    		 35.3 1.67 21.2 29.5 17.9
    Details On the origin of species Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 153985
    (384)    		 29.6 1.67 18.8 35.7 15.6
    Details On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 154299
    (385)    		 30.7 1.67 19.2 34.8 16.0
    Details The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 21000 210326
    (525)    		 21.0 1.57 13.8 52.6 11.1
    Details The Descent of Man Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 298564
    (746)    		 17.6 1.66 14.0 48.4 10.9
    Details The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 13000 17000 23000 108262
    (270)    		 24.5 1.34 12.1 68.4 9.8
    Details The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 14000 17000 23000 36446
    (91)    		 22.3 1.34 11.1 71.3 8.8
    Details Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1265 (1807) 1321 (1882) 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23000 38252
    (95)    		 26.1 1.4 13.6 62.1 11.1

    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.