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 | The Marvelous Land of Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
42055 (105) |
15.4 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 67.7 | 7.6 | |
| Details | The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Tucker, Benjamin R. | 1828 | 1910 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
63962 (159) |
17.1 | 1.47 | 11.0 | 65.1 | 8.4 |
| Details | Tarzan of the Apes | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
84994 (212) |
19.6 | 1.45 | 11.4 | 64.4 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
37289 (93) |
15.6 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics | Laozi | Legge, James | (1815) | (1897) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
10365 (25) |
13.8 | 1.41 | 9.4 | 73.7 | 6.4 |
| Details | Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
145128 (362) |
32.5 | 1.6 | 19.5 | 38.3 | 16.0 | |
| Details | The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in | Engels, Friedrich | Kelley, Florence | 1820 (1859) | 1895 (1932) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
114426 (286) |
27.4 | 1.62 | 17.1 | 42.3 | 14.2 |
| Details | Daddy-Long-Legs | Webster, Jean | 1876 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
36296 (90) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.3 | 67.5 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Chessmen of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
87139 (217) |
17.6 | 1.44 | 10.7 | 67.4 | 8.2 | |
| Details | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
3713 (9) |
18.8 | 1.47 | 11.5 | 63.0 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Red Badge of Courage | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
45599 (113) |
12.7 | 1.46 | 9.0 | 70.6 | 6.6 | |
| Details | The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Alexander | 1757 | 1804 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
191873 (479) |
31.9 | 1.69 | 20.8 | 31.4 | 16.8 | |
| Details | The Economic Consequences of the Peace | Keynes, John Maynard | 1883 | 1946 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
67762 (169) |
26.4 | 1.67 | 17.9 | 38.9 | 14.4 | |
| Details | Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm | Grimm, Wilhelm | Crane, Lucy | 1786 (1842) | 1859 (1882) | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
88523 (221) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.5 | 75.7 | 8.2 |
| Details | The Big Trip Up Yonder | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1922 | 2007 | 3000 | 5000 | 12000 | 16000 | 16000 | 16000 |
3562 (8) |
13.5 | 1.49 | 9.6 | 66.9 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Art of War | Sunzi | Giles, Lionel | (1875) | (1958) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
10489 (26) |
11.5 | 1.53 | 9.9 | 65.9 | 6.9 |
| Details | Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience | Matthews, Ike | 1857 | 1913 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
14490 (36) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.8 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 | Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) | 1840 | 1914 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
206172 (515) |
29.9 | 1.59 | 18.0 | 41.9 | 14.8 | |
| Details | Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma | 1869 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
67167 (167) |
21.2 | 1.64 | 15.1 | 46.2 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Possessed (The Devils) | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Garnett, Constance | 1821 (1861) | 1881 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
252520 (631) |
15.5 | 1.5 | 10.9 | 64.3 | 8.1 |
| Details | The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | Garnett, Constance | 1860 (1861) | 1904 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
71033 (177) |
17.1 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 8.2 |
| Details | Stories from Hans Andersen | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
36988 (92) |
18.2 | 1.34 | 9.4 | 75.1 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Civil Disobedience | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
9251 (23) |
26.4 | 1.5 | 15.2 | 53.5 | 12.3 | |
| 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 | Short Stories | Dostoievski, Fiodor | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
79953 (199) |
15.4 | 1.48 | 10.3 | 66.3 | 7.8 | |||
| Details | The Art of Public Speaking | Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) | 1867 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
154880 (387) |
17.2 | 1.54 | 12.1 | 59.1 | 9.3 | |
| 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 Madman | Gibran, Khalil | 1883 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
7034 (17) |
17.5 | 1.36 | 9.1 | 74.3 | 7.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners | Ruskin, John | 1819 | 1900 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
72573 (181) |
29.6 | 1.47 | 16.0 | 52.7 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The Story of Mankind | Van Loon, Hendrik Willem | 1882 | 1944 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
128493 (321) |
21.3 | 1.56 | 14.0 | 53.3 | 11.1 | |
| Details | Democracy in America — Volume 2 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
140667 (351) |
33.1 | 1.64 | 20.1 | 34.3 | 16.7 |
| Details | The Gardener | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
13795 (34) |
14.2 | 1.28 | 7.1 | 83.9 | 5.1 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
19419 (48) |
29.7 | 1.55 | 17.5 | 45.4 | 14.3 | |
| Details | The Ladies Delight | Anonymous | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 |
4466 (11) |
42.1 | 1.35 | 19.5 | 50.1 | 16.7 | |||
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
124102 (310) |
22.4 | 1.45 | 13.2 | 61.6 | 10.2 |
| 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 | The Arabian Nights | Lang, Andrew | 1844 | 1912 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
111534 (278) |
23.9 | 1.4 | 12.9 | 63.8 | 10.3 | |
| Details | Of Human Bondage | Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) | 1874 | 1965 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
258577 (646) |
15.5 | 1.42 | 9.6 | 70.9 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Blue Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew | 1844 | 1912 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
138225 (345) |
24.9 | 1.35 | 12.4 | 67.7 | 10.0 | |
| Details | Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 | Various | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
84493 (211) |
12.1 | 1.5 | 9.1 | 67.6 | 6.8 | |||
| Details | The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
11304 (28) |
14.1 | 1.46 | 9.7 | 68.8 | 7.2 | |
| Details | History of the United States | Beard, Mary Ritter | 1876 | 1958 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
199929 (499) |
18.8 | 1.71 | 15.4 | 42.7 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | Japanese Fairy Tales | Ozaki, Yei Theodora | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
70489 (176) |
20.6 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 70.7 | 8.5 | |||
| Details | The Frontier in American History | Turner, Frederick Jackson | 1861 | 1932 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
112204 (280) |
24.6 | 1.7 | 17.3 | 38.2 | 14.0 | |
| Details | The Woman in White | Collins, Wilkie | 1824 | 1889 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 16000 |
241638 (604) |
17.8 | 1.47 | 11.3 | 64.1 | 8.7 | |
| Details | Theresa Raquin | Zola, Émile | Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred | 1840 (1853) | 1902 (1922) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
70860 (177) |
17.4 | 1.49 | 11.4 | 62.8 | 8.8 |
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.