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 Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
70421 (176) |
12.3 | 1.41 | 7.9 | 75.2 | 5.8 | |
| Details | 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
11354 (28) |
22.8 | 1.57 | 14.4 | 51.0 | 11.8 | |
| 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 | Shakspere & Typography | Blades, William | 1824 | 1890 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
6763 (16) |
19.3 | 1.59 | 13.4 | 53.1 | 10.6 | |
| Details | Man and Superman | Shaw, Bernard | 1856 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 14000 | 18000 |
68390 (170) |
12.1 | 1.51 | 9.4 | 66.6 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts | Grundy, Sydney | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
17860 (44) |
4.8 | 1.52 | 6.8 | 73.6 | 4.2 | |||
| Details | Ghostly Phenomena | O'Donnell, Elliott | 1872 | 1965 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 15000 |
34834 (87) |
25.6 | 1.56 | 15.5 | 48.9 | 12.8 | |
| Details | The Burglars' Club A Romance in Twelve Chronicles | Hering, Henry A. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
51301 (128) |
11.1 | 1.49 | 8.8 | 69.2 | 6.4 | |||
| Details | House of the Seven Gables | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
105173 (262) |
22.8 | 1.54 | 14.1 | 53.6 | 11.4 | |
| Details | The Pencil of Nature | Talbot, William Henry Fox | 1800 | 1877 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
9368 (23) |
19.4 | 1.6 | 13.8 | 52.0 | 10.8 | |
| Details | Human Animals | Hamel, Frank | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
97180 (242) |
23.3 | 1.51 | 14.0 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |||
| 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 Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and | Mackey, Albert Gallatin | 1807 | 1881 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70062 (175) |
26.1 | 1.65 | 17.7 | 40.8 | 14.1 | |
| 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 | Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine | Elliott, James, Sir | 1880 | 1959 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
36438 (91) |
20.3 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.7 | 11.9 | |
| 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 | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
256688 (641) |
18.6 | 1.72 | 15.8 | 42.3 | 12.0 | |
| Details | The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
58756 (146) |
19.8 | 1.5 | 12.5 | 59.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Alexander the Great Makers of History | Abbott, Jacob | 1803 | 1879 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
52859 (132) |
23.5 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 48.0 | 12.4 | |
| Details | Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate | Nevinson, John L. | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 25000 |
9332 (23) |
20.1 | 1.67 | 14.7 | 45.4 | 11.9 | |||
| 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 | The Analysis of Mind | Russell, Bertrand | 1872 | 1970 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 15000 |
88527 (221) |
24.8 | 1.63 | 16.8 | 43.3 | 13.4 | |
| 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 | Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making | Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) | 1850 | 1896 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
102413 (256) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 62.6 | 9.3 | |
| Details | Through Welsh Doorways | Marks, Jeannette Augustus | 1875 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 23000 |
41010 (102) |
15.1 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 7.1 | |
| Details | The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1 | Garis, Cleo | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
50450 (126) |
11.0 | 1.43 | 7.5 | 75.1 | 5.5 | |||
| Details | John Deere's Steel Plow | Kendall, Edward C. | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
5509 (13) |
17.7 | 1.53 | 12.1 | 59.4 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany | Fox, Edward Lyell | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
85448 (213) |
18.8 | 1.48 | 11.4 | 62.7 | 9.2 | |||
| 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 | Anthony Trent, Master Criminal | Martyn, Wyndham | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
80574 (201) |
12.7 | 1.48 | 9.3 | 69.0 | 6.8 | ||
| 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 | The Beginner's American History | Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry) | 1837 | 1928 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 |
67333 (168) |
13.6 | 1.47 | 9.6 | 68.8 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & | Cody, Sherwin | 1868 | 1959 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
59114 (147) |
18.7 | 1.52 | 12.4 | 59.0 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 |
20422 (51) |
14.2 | 1.34 | 7.9 | 78.6 | 5.8 | |
| Details | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Ann Ward | 1764 | 1823 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
289394 (723) |
27.3 | 1.53 | 16.5 | 49.8 | 13.1 | |
| 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 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 Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1772 | 1834 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
3850 (9) |
15.8 | 1.28 | 7.4 | 82.7 | 5.7 | |
| Details | The Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
| Details | The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights | Knowles, James, Sir | 1831 | 1908 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93384 (233) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.6 | 68.7 | 10.1 | |
| 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 | New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in | Cotter, John L.Hudson, J. Paul | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 23000 |
15759 (39) |
19.1 | 1.71 | 15.1 | 42.4 | 12.1 | |||
| Details | Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
146705 (366) |
15.3 | 1.43 | 9.6 | 70.6 | 7.2 | ||||
| Details | Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face | Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) | 1905 | 2002 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 13000 |
35128 (87) |
9.9 | 1.44 | 7.8 | 74.7 | 5.3 | |
| 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 | What Is Man? and Other Essays | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
92556 (231) |
13.5 | 1.5 | 9.8 | 66.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form | Hibberd, Shirley | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
40114 (100) |
17.5 | 1.59 | 12.8 | 54.9 | 10.0 | |||
| 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 | On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Carlyle, Thomas | 1795 | 1881 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
87919 (219) |
22.6 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.1 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | |
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.