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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 My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition Anonymous 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 15000 263497
    (658)
    18.4 1.37 9.6 72.1 7.8
    Details Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Welsh, Peter C. 3000 5000 9000 13000 14000 21000 11740
    (29)
    15.1 1.77 14.4 41.3 11.3
    Details Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) -Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse) 1876 4000 6000 11000 13000 18000 20000 27844
    (69)
    15.4 1.53 10.8 61.4 8.5
    Details Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Edwards, Jonathan 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 70313
    (175)
    25.6 1.49 15.3 55.1 11.9
    Details The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio 3000 4000 8000 12000 17000 22000 97942
    (244)
    20.5 1.5 13.2 58.7 10.2
    Details The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 20000 790029
    (1975)
    26.6 1.35 13.2 66.1 10.6
    Details Best Russian Short Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 94443
    (236)
    15.3 1.47 10.4 66.6 7.8
    Details The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 14000 706
    (1)
    18.6 1.35 9.2 74.1 7.5
    Details Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) (1856) (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 17000 25000 37282
    (93)
    19.9 1.55 11.9 55.4 10.5
    Details Steam, Its Generation and Use Babcock & Wilcox Company 3000 4000 7000 10000 15000 20000 120558
    (301)
    9.8 1.67 10.7 56.0 7.9
    Details Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Berens, E.M. 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 104008
    (260)
    23.7 1.62 16.1 45.3 12.8
    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 Beowulf Gummere, Francis Barton (1855) (1919) 4000 7000 11000 14000 19000 24000 25594
    (63)
    23.1 1.37 11.2 67.2 9.6
    Details A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story Harrison, Carter H. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 66474
    (166)
    18.5 1.48 11.3 63.2 9.0
    Details Philippine Folk Tales 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 48249
    (120)
    21.8 1.37 11.5 68.7 9.1
    Details The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat Celnart, Elisabeth 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 45211
    (113)
    26.3 1.56 16.2 48.0 13.1
    Details The Spell of Belgium Anderson, Isabel 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 21000 89821
    (224)
    21.1 1.53 13.4 56.3 10.6
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 91873
    (229)
    27.8 1.66 18.4 38.2 14.9
    Details The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 3000 4000 6000 10000 12000 19000 45835
    (114)
    19.7 1.67 14.9 45.4 11.8
    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 Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot Craig, Austin 1872 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 19000 62400
    (156)
    29.6 1.64 18.6 38.3 15.3
    Details Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf For the Use of Teachers Newell, Jane H. (Jane Hancox) 3000 5000 8000 12000 18000 24000 26005
    (65)
    15.1 1.49 10.4 65.2 7.9
    Details Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous 4000 4000 9000 14000 15000 17000 20223
    (50)
    16.2 1.38 8.7 73.6 7.0
    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 Everyman, with other interludes, including eight miracle plays 4000 6000 10000 15000 19000 24000 54310
    (135)
    11.2 1.35 7.0 81.1 4.7
    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 The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) (1816) (1878) 2000 4000 8000 12000 18000 23000 125987
    (314)
    9.6 1.43 7.7 76.1 5.0
    Details The Invention of Lithography Senefelder, Alois Muller, J. W. 3000 4000 7000 12000 13000 17000 87110
    (217)
    24.2 1.54 14.5 52.3 12.0
    Details The Handbook of Soap Manufacture Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert)Appleton, H. A. 4000 9000 15000 17000 19000 24000 53752
    (134)
    9.8 1.76 12.2 48.1 9.0
    Details The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses Wellman, Francis L. 2000 3000 6000 8000 9000 15000 53685
    (134)
    14.8 1.56 11.1 60.0 8.6
    Details The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection Casteel, D. B. 4000 7000 8000 12000 19000 20000 12517
    (31)
    21.6 1.57 13.5 52.3 11.3
    Details Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 104617
    (261)
    11.9 1.54 9.6 64.9 7.2
    Details The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa New York Central Railroad Company 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 48248
    (120)
    14.7 1.63 12.4 53.8 9.4
    Details Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut Anonymous 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 22000 132745
    (331)
    17.9 1.72 15.0 42.8 11.7
    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 Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P Anonymous 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 31960
    (79)
    25.1 1.38 12.6 64.2 10.5
    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 Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples Brown, Frank Chouteau 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 22000 20014
    (50)
    10.1 1.75 11.9 48.1 9.1
    Details The Viking Blood A Story of Seafaring Wallace, Frederick William 3000 6000 9000 12000 16000 22000 138112
    (345)
    16.3 1.45 9.7 67.8 7.8
    Details A Little Book of Filipino Riddles 4000 6000 10000 15000 18000 24000 15684
    (39)
    8.6 1.64 8.8 59.3 7.1
    Details Famous Modern Ghost Stories 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 22000 93775
    (234)
    15.7 1.46 9.9 67.6 7.7
    Details Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) Engel, Carl 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 71969
    (179)
    19.4 1.67 15.0 45.6 11.7
    Details Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br Vinycomb, John 4000 7000 12000 16000 19000 23000 52424
    (131)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.3 12.2
    Details The Minute Man of the Frontier Puddefoot, W. G. 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 54821
    (137)
    19.3 1.43 10.7 66.1 8.8
    Details The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 303152
    (757)
    22.2 1.7 16.6 40.5 13.1
    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 Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Scott, Charles A. 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 13160
    (32)
    6.6 1.39 5.1 82.1 3.4
    Details The Real Mother Goose 4000 6000 11000 14000 16000 24000 15838
    (39)
    18.5 1.32 8.4 76.6 7.2
    Details The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Nuttall, P. Austin 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 758344
    (1895)
    30.7 1.69 19.4 32.9 16.3

    Notes:

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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.