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    (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 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Grose, Francis 1731 1791 5000 8000 13000 15000 19000 24000 80819
    (202)    		 7.1 1.53 6.6 70.3 5.2
    Details The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 65762
    (164)    		 32.0 1.54 18.0 44.5 15.0
    Details Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 73971
    (184)    		 27.2 1.54 16.1 49.0 13.2
    Details Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, Cleland, John 1709 1789 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 84355
    (210)    		 57.8 1.49 27.7 22.4 24.5
    Details Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) 1723 (1771) 1789 (1797) 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 39094
    (97)    		 21.4 1.64 15.8 46.2 12.1
    Details Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World Cook, James 1728 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 220361
    (550)    		 21.2 1.45 12.3 62.8 9.8
    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 Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)    		 18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    Details The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 274389
    (685)    		 30.2 1.57 17.9 43.2 14.7
    Details Emile Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712 1778 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 14000 251868
    (629)    		 25.8 1.44 14.1 58.8 11.5
    Details A Treatise of Human Nature Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 225521
    (563)    		 31.6 1.65 19.8 35.3 16.2
    Details An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 56587
    (141)    		 28.1 1.66 18.7 38.1 14.9
    Details Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 35903
    (89)    		 29.4 1.66 19.0 36.4 15.5
    Details An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 48155
    (120)    		 31.1 1.71 20.6 30.5 16.7
    Details She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith, Oliver 1730 1774 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 22563
    (56)    		 8.3 1.42 6.0 78.2 4.4
    Details The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Sterne, Laurence 1713 1768 2000 5000 9000 13000 17000 22000 179035
    (447)    		 43.2 1.45 21.0 40.2 18.4
    Details Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Richardson, Samuel 1689 1761 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 221156
    (552)    		 26.6 1.37 13.2 63.7 11.0
    Details History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Fielding, Henry 1707 1754 2000 4000 8000 10000 12000 18000 348464
    (871)    		 30.5 1.5 16.9 48.8 14.0
    Details Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 103706
    (259)    		 36.5 1.51 19.2 42.3 16.4
    Details A Modest Proposal Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 3000 4000 7000 9000 14000 18000 3406
    (8)    		 50.8 1.53 25.1 25.5 22.3
    Details Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 51555
    (128)    		 28.8 1.5 16.0 50.9 13.3
    Details An Essay on Man Pope, Alexander 1688 1744 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 46424
    (116)    		 19.3 1.37 10.5 71.1 8.1
    Details The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Pope, Alexander 1688 1744 4000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 54188
    (135)    		 19.7 1.47 12.1 62.2 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 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 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronic Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 4000 7000 12000 17000 18000 69813
    (174)    		 15.0 1.42 10.0 71.2 7.0
    Details Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 5000 9000 10000 12000 18000 96556
    (241)    		 32.8 1.5 18.0 46.6 14.9
    Details The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series Addison, Joseph 1672 1719 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 20000 929911
    (2324)    		 26.0 1.51 15.2 52.3 12.4
    Details Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Huggard, E. M. 1646 1716 3000 4000 7000 9000 13000 20000 184166
    (460)    		 24.4 1.56 15.6 50.1 12.3
    Details Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Rowlandson, Mary White 1635 1710 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 20128
    (50)    		 25.9 1.35 12.9 66.1 10.5
    Details Second Treatise of Government Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56126
    (140)    		 33.0 1.51 18.6 45.7 15.1
    Details An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Editi Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 149042
    (372)    		 31.5 1.51 17.7 46.9 14.5
    Details The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 Perrault, Charles Welsh, Charles 1628 (1850) 1703 (1914) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 18345
    (45)    		 23.2 1.36 11.8 67.9 9.6
    Details The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Perrault, Charles 1628 1703 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 20000 28065
    (70)    		 26.8 1.4 13.8 61.1 11.4
    Details Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Hooke, Robert 1635 1703 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 147089
    (367)    		 48.8 1.46 23.6 33.9 20.7
    Details Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Pepys, Samuel Bright, Mynors 1633 (1818) 1703 (1883) 2000 3000 7000 11000 13000 22000 1253859
    (3134)    		 30.4 1.36 14.6 61.3 12.3
    Details Phèdre. English Racine, Jean Boswell, Robert Bruce 1639 1699 4000 5000 9000 11000 14000 18000 13981
    (34)    		 14.1 1.4 8.5 74.3 6.4
    Details The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) 1634 1693 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 61526
    (153)    		 56.6 1.45 26.7 27.1 23.5
    Details The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Behn, Aphra 1640 1689 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 144849
    (362)    		 9.2 1.4 6.7 78.6 4.6
    Details The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under Bunyan, John 1628 1688 2000 4000 8000 11000 14000 20000 56792
    (141)    		 19.1 1.33 10.0 75.3 7.5
    Details The Cid Corneille, Pierre Mongan, Roscoe 1606 1684 4000 5000 8000 10000 11000 16000 18903
    (47)    		 12.1 1.46 8.8 70.7 6.4
    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 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 Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas 1588 1679 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 19000 211956
    (529)    		 34.2 1.51 19.0 44.3 15.6
    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 Paradise Lost Milton, John 1608 1674 4000 7000 13000 18000 18000 23000 79709
    (199)    		 49.9 1.37 22.9 40.2 20.1
    Details Paradise Lost Milton, John 1608 1674 4000 7000 11000 13000 17000 23000 80144
    (200)    		 43.3 1.42 21.0 42.9 18.0
    Details Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o Milton, John 1608 1674 3000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 17989
    (44)    		 44.3 1.51 22.9 34.0 19.5

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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.