This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
Conventional Readability Formula |
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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 | Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite | Molière | Page, Curtis Hidden | 1622 (1870) | 1673 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 18000 |
18064 (45) |
15.4 | 1.39 | 8.7 | 73.3 | 6.9 |
Details | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Molière | Jones, Philip Dwight | 1622 | 1673 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 |
18257 (45) |
11.3 | 1.49 | 8.4 | 69.7 | 6.3 |
Details | L'avare. English | Molière | Wall, Charles Heron | 1622 | 1673 | 2000 | 3000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
22064 (55) |
8.8 | 1.37 | 6.2 | 82.1 | 4.0 |
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 | Pascal's Pensées | Pascal, Blaise | 1623 | 1662 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
105254 (263) |
14.7 | 1.47 | 10.6 | 67.6 | 7.5 | |
Details | Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a | Bradford, William | 1590 | 1657 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 | 23000 |
169207 (423) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.8 | |
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 | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Burton, Robert | 1577 | 1640 | 4000 | 8000 | 14000 | 17000 | 20000 | 24000 |
513147 (1282) |
11.3 | 1.67 | 11.6 | 54.3 | 8.5 | |
Details | The Alchemist | Jonson, Ben | 1573 | 1637 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 | 24000 |
47958 (119) |
7.6 | 1.47 | 7.0 | 74.7 | 4.7 | |
Details | Volpone; Or, the Fox | Jonson, Ben | 1573 | 1637 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 | 24000 |
48543 (121) |
11.3 | 1.5 | 8.8 | 68.9 | 6.4 | |
Details | New Atlantis | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
15693 (39) |
33.2 | 1.42 | 17.1 | 52.8 | 14.2 | |
Details | The Essays of Francis Bacon | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
52994 (132) |
29.0 | 1.48 | 16.2 | 51.9 | 13.2 | |
Details | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 | 23000 |
897318 (2243) |
9.5 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 79.1 | 4.6 | |
Details | Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 23000 |
25924 (64) |
8.0 | 1.32 | 5.1 | 86.7 | 3.2 | |
Details | Don Quixote | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
425471 (1063) |
45.3 | 1.41 | 21.6 | 41.9 | 18.7 |
Details | The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
215612 (539) |
48.7 | 1.41 | 23.1 | 37.8 | 20.1 |
Details | Hamlet | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
28983 (72) |
8.3 | 1.43 | 6.8 | 77.6 | 4.5 | |
Details | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
Details | Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I | Spenser, Edmund | 1552 | 1599 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 | 24000 |
70160 (175) |
17.3 | 1.43 | 10.4 | 68.1 | 8.1 | |
Details | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 23000 |
19258 (48) |
12.3 | 1.46 | 8.2 | 70.8 | 6.4 | |
Details | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 | 24000 |
20740 (51) |
10.7 | 1.44 | 7.4 | 74.4 | 5.5 | |
Details | The Essays of Montaigne — Complete | Montaigne, Michel de | Cotton, Charles | 1533 (1630) | 1592 (1687) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
524667 (1311) |
38.4 | 1.52 | 20.3 | 39.6 | 17.3 |
Details | The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written b | Díaz del Castillo, Bernal | Lockhart, John Ingram | 1492 | 1585 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
183124 (457) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.7 | 45.8 | 14.2 |
Details | A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE | Casas, Bartolomé de las | 1474 | 1566 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
30124 (75) |
53.7 | 1.51 | 26.5 | 24.5 | 23.2 | |
Details | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Rabelais, François | Urquhart, Thomas, Sir | 1483 (1611) | 1553 (1660) | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 | 24000 |
317921 (794) |
21.5 | 1.49 | 13.0 | 58.9 | 10.4 |
Details | The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes | Henry VIII, King of England | 1491 | 1547 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
5585 (13) |
22.3 | 1.42 | 12.3 | 64.4 | 9.8 | |
Details | In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius | 1469 | 1536 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
44403 (111) |
48.2 | 1.52 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 21.1 | |
Details | Utopia | More, Thomas, Sir, Saint | 1478 | 1535 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
43401 (108) |
55.4 | 1.43 | 26.2 | 29.7 | 22.9 | |
Details | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò | Marriott, W. K. (William K.) | 1469 | 1527 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
49271 (123) |
38.0 | 1.54 | 20.8 | 38.2 | 17.4 |
Details | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
187600 (469) |
26.2 | 1.32 | 12.9 | 68.5 | 10.2 | |
Details | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
168617 (421) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.7 | 69.0 | 10.1 | |
Details | The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio | Boccaccio, Giovanni | Payne, John | 1313 (1842) | 1375 (1916) | 3000 | 6000 | 12000 | 15000 | 18000 | 22000 |
306465 (766) |
44.1 | 1.44 | 21.5 | 40.2 | 18.6 |
Details | The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch | Petrarca, Francesco | 1304 | 1374 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
189869 (474) |
22.6 | 1.43 | 12.7 | 63.0 | 10.1 | |
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 |
Details | Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint | 1225 | 1274 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
486564 (1216) |
17.0 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 58.7 | 9.3 | |
Details | The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson | Blackwell, I. A. | 1179 | 1241 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
84459 (211) |
11.7 | 1.42 | 7.6 | 75.2 | 5.7 |
Details | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyám | FitzGerald, Edward | 1048 (1809) | 1122 (1883) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
11527 (28) |
18.2 | 1.46 | 11.1 | 64.5 | 8.8 |
Details | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) | 480 (1862) | 525 (1931) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
42189 (105) |
19.5 | 1.47 | 12.3 | 62.6 | 9.4 |
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 Golden Asse | Apuleius, Lucius | 125 | 180 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80574 (201) |
51.6 | 1.43 | 24.2 | 33.7 | 21.4 | |
Details | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome | 121 | 180 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
71538 (178) |
21.0 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 60.9 | 10.0 | |
Details | De vita Caesarum | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius | 75 | 160 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
228866 (572) |
26.5 | 1.63 | 17.5 | 42.4 | 13.9 | |
Details | Plutarch's Lives, Volume I | Plutarch | Stewart, Aubrey | 46 (1844) | 120 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
184023 (460) |
32.8 | 1.53 | 18.6 | 44.0 | 15.3 |
Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
Details | Antiquities of the Jews | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
531622 (1329) |
37.5 | 1.46 | 19.8 | 44.8 | 16.3 |
Details | The Satyricon — Complete | Petronius Arbiter | 20 | 66 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
97604 (244) |
25.3 | 1.52 | 14.9 | 52.9 | 12.2 | |
Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
137832 (344) |
21.9 | 1.49 | 13.5 | 58.2 | 10.6 |
Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 25000 |
123549 (308) |
20.1 | 1.5 | 12.7 | 59.9 | 9.9 |
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.