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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 Persuasion Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 82646
    (206)
    22.7 1.49 13.7 57.7 10.9
    Details 2 B R 0 2 B Vonnegut, Kurt 1922 2007 2000 3000 7000 9000 10000 14000 2501
    (6)
    9.4 1.46 7.5 74.1 5.3
    Details Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 117920
    (294)
    24.3 1.51 14.9 54.1 11.8
    Details Emma Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 155516
    (388)
    20.8 1.47 12.4 61.1 9.9
    Details Mansfield Park Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 157622
    (394)
    22.6 1.48 13.3 59.1 10.6
    Details The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 39505
    (98)
    17.4 1.33 9.3 76.3 6.9
    Details The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 348671
    (871)
    14.5 1.46 9.9 68.9 7.3
    Details The Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 991
    (2)
    17.1 1.49 10.6 63.7 8.6
    Details Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809 1894 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 2343
    (5)
    14.7 1.27 6.8 84.1 5.2
    Details The Jungle Sinclair, Upton 1878 1968 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 147652
    (369)
    22.3 1.39 12.0 66.4 9.5
    Details The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 103757
    (259)
    14.9 1.43 9.3 70.8 7.1
    Details The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 58745
    (146)
    15.0 1.42 9.3 71.8 7.0
    Details Secret Adversary Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 74269
    (185)
    9.2 1.46 7.6 73.8 5.3
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 215540
    (538)
    24.7 1.49 14.7 56.0 11.6
    Details Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 202487
    (506)
    14.3 1.47 10.0 67.6 7.4
    Details The Turn of the Screw James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 14000 41719
    (104)
    16.9 1.43 10.2 69.1 7.8
    Details Palmistry for All Cheiro 1866 1936 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 21000 41356
    (103)
    28.5 1.51 16.3 50.3 13.3
    Details Grimm's Fairy Tales Grimm, Jacob 1785 1863 1000 3000 5000 8000 10000 16000 100994
    (252)
    22.3 1.28 10.4 76.2 8.2
    Details Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 76450
    (191)
    21.1 1.5 13.2 58.4 10.4
    Details The Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 111170
    (277)
    14.2 1.44 9.2 71.0 6.9
    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 Sex Life of the Gods Knerr, Michael 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 32090
    (80)
    11.2 1.39 7.0 78.3 5.1
    Details The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) 1843 1913 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 200768
    (501)
    22.5 1.58 14.8 50.5 11.8
    Details Nationalism Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 14000 26616
    (66)
    24.0 1.56 15.2 50.2 12.2
    Details How to Tell a Story and Other Essays Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 18000 7146
    (17)
    21.7 1.43 12.0 64.0 9.7
    Details Diary of an Enlisted Man Alstyne, Lawrence Van 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 120903
    (302)
    14.6 1.36 8.3 76.8 6.2
    Details The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study Martin, Everett Dean 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 70365
    (175)
    18.9 1.69 14.8 44.7 11.7
    Details Queen Victoria Browne, E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) 1871 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 33632
    (84)
    23.2 1.54 14.3 53.4 11.6
    Details A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first ti Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 15000 65747
    (164)
    13.9 1.4 8.5 74.1 6.4
    Details Uncle Vanya Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860 1904 2000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 16391
    (40)
    8.8 1.44 7.1 76.2 4.8
    Details Gorgias Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 59271
    (148)
    23.6 1.5 14.7 56.3 11.3
    Details McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition Mc 1800 1873 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 7379
    (18)
    10.1 1.27 5.3 89.4 3.3
    Details Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover Anonymous 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 32078
    (80)
    36.5 1.52 19.6 41.2 16.6
    Details The Elements of Style Strunk, William 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 13203
    (33)
    15.7 1.65 13.1 51.3 10.0
    Details The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 115618
    (289)
    16.4 1.49 11.1 64.4 8.4
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 8575
    (21)
    17.3 1.3 8.5 79.1 6.5
    Details Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 120454
    (301)
    22.9 1.52 14.4 55.1 11.3
    Details On Liberty Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 51737
    (129)
    35.8 1.64 21.3 31.8 17.7
    Details The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 3000 4000 8000 9000 10000 17000 59403
    (148)
    24.7 1.63 17.1 43.9 13.3
    Details A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund Hall, G. Stanley 1856 (1846) 1939 (1924) 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 15000 155848
    (389)
    24.6 1.65 16.9 42.3 13.5
    Details The Great God Pan Machen, Arthur 1863 1947 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 21527
    (53)
    19.7 1.45 11.3 64.5 9.2
    Details Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Stein, Gertrude 1874 1946 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 14968
    (37)
    15.1 1.46 9.3 68.2 7.5
    Details Edison's Conquest of Mars Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851 1929 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 64861
    (162)
    21.5 1.54 14.1 54.7 11.0
    Details Fifty Years in Chains Or, the Life of an American Slave Ball, Charles 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 105338
    (263)
    35.5 1.43 17.9 49.7 15.1
    Details Phaedo Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 42694
    (106)
    26.6 1.46 15.2 56.0 12.1
    Details The Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 41011
    (102)
    19.2 1.39 10.6 69.8 8.3
    Details The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 7617
    (19)
    12.1 1.45 8.5 71.6 6.3
    Details Meno Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 22147
    (55)
    19.6 1.5 12.8 59.8 9.8
    Details The Kingdom of God Is Within You Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 123231
    (308)
    31.0 1.56 18.3 43.6 14.9
    Details Concerning the Spiritual in Art Kandinsky, Wassily Sadleir, Michael 1866 (1888) 1944 (1957) 3000 4000 5000 8000 10000 17000 26025
    (65)
    20.0 1.64 14.5 47.8 11.6

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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.