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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 Mrs. Warren's Profession Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 2000 4000 9000 11000 12000 17000 34153
    (85)
    12.7 1.47 9.0 69.2 6.8
    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 Little Black Sambo Bannerman, Helen 1862 1946 4000 5000 12000 12000 12000 12000 1153
    (2)
    16.0 1.41 9.0 71.2 7.3
    Details Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 8000 12000 16000 22000 28603
    (71)
    17.3 1.38 9.0 72.8 7.4
    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 Waste Land Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 4000 6000 11000 14000 17000 22000 4490
    (11)
    12.0 1.51 8.9 66.6 7.0
    Details Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles Storr, Francis 495BC (1839) 406BC (1919) 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 24000 37158
    (92)
    14.7 1.38 8.9 75.1 6.4
    Details Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Dickinson, Emily 1830 1886 4000 6000 10000 12000 14000 22000 30572
    (76)
    13.2 1.44 8.9 71.7 6.6
    Details The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 40737
    (101)
    15.5 1.41 8.9 71.6 7.1
    Details A Young Girl's Diary Anonymous Paul, Eden (1865) (1944) 1000 2000 5000 8000 13000 15000 87209
    (218)
    15.5 1.39 8.9 73.6 6.9
    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 Beeton's Book of Needlework Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 14000 15000 17000 20000 81453
    (203)
    13.6 1.47 8.8 68.7 7.0
    Details Songs of Innocence and Experience Blake, William 1757 1827 4000 5000 8000 10000 12000 15000 5549
    (13)
    18.8 1.31 8.8 77.1 7.2
    Details Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews United States. Work Projects Administration 2000 6000 9000 15000 20000 22000 126940
    (317)
    17.2 1.35 8.8 75.6 7.0
    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 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 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 Ulysses Joyce, James 1882 1941 4000 7000 11000 14000 18000 23000 260586
    (651)
    11.2 1.5 8.7 68.9 6.4
    Details Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26275
    (65)
    16.6 1.36 8.7 75.1 6.9
    Details Encyclopedia of Needlework Dillmont, Thérèse de 1846 1890 4000 5000 10000 15000 22000 22000 126757
    (316)
    14.1 1.42 8.7 72.4 6.7
    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 An Imperial Marriage Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) 1852 1923 2000 3000 6000 10000 13000 21000 94091
    (235)
    14.1 1.4 8.7 73.9 6.5
    Details The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 21000 108599
    (271)
    18.5 1.3 8.7 78.1 7.0
    Details Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) (1823) (1900) 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 16000 11680
    (29)
    12.8 1.43 8.7 73.0 6.3
    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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 4000 7000 10000 15000 19000 26821
    (67)
    16.4 1.36 8.7 74.9 6.9
    Details Who Goes There! Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 7000 9000 12000 19000 72754
    (181)
    12.0 1.47 8.7 70.2 6.4
    Details Tales of Folk and Fairies Pyle, Katharine 1863 1938 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 21000 54127
    (135)
    17.5 1.29 8.6 79.7 6.5
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 28431
    (71)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.4 6.5
    Details The Invisible Man Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 47694
    (119)
    12.5 1.47 8.6 70.2 6.6
    Details Faust Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Taylor, Bayard 1749 (1825) 1832 (1878) 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 21000 36297
    (90)
    13.2 1.44 8.6 71.3 6.6
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details Greenmantle Buchan, John 1875 1940 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 98151
    (245)
    14.7 1.4 8.6 73.2 6.7
    Details The Princess and the Goblin Mac 1824 1905 1000 3000 5000 8000 9000 15000 50659
    (126)
    15.8 1.35 8.6 76.9 6.5
    Details The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 57012
    (142)
    13.3 1.41 8.6 74.3 6.2
    Details The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 54516
    (136)
    12.9 1.43 8.6 72.6 6.3
    Details A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 29106
    (72)
    14.6 1.39 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Burns, Robert 1759 1796 6000 9000 17000 22000 24000 25000 125988
    (314)
    17.1 1.38 8.6 73.1 7.3
    Details The Mysterious Affair at Styles Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 2000 3000 6000 9000 12000 17000 55542
    (138)
    10.2 1.49 8.5 70.3 6.0
    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 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 The Adventures of Sally Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 76500
    (191)
    12.1 1.46 8.5 70.8 6.4
    Details The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 27122
    (67)
    15.7 1.33 8.5 78.2 6.3
    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 The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 8000 9000 16000 10626
    (26)
    11.6 1.46 8.5 71.9 6.1
    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 Phèdre. English Racine, Jean Boswell, Robert Bruce 1639 1699 4000 5000 9000 11000 14000 18000 13981
    (34)
    14.1 1.4 8.5 74.3 6.4
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    Details Heidi (Gift Edition) Spyri, Johanna Stork, Elisabeth P. (Elisabeth Pausinger) 1827 1901 1000 2000 5000 6000 8000 12000 51302
    (128)
    13.6 1.39 8.4 75.4 6.1
    Details The Cask of Amontillado Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 11000 17000 19000 19000 2302
    (5)
    10.0 1.51 8.4 68.9 6.1

    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.