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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| 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 | Anne's House of Dreams | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
78051 (195) |
13.7 | 1.4 | 8.2 | 74.6 | 6.3 | |
| Details | The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanator | Aeschylus | Murray, Gilbert | 525BC (1866) | 456BC (1957) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
20586 (51) |
13.1 | 1.4 | 8.4 | 75.1 | 6.1 |
| Details | The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) | 1863 | 1943 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3926 (9) |
12.7 | 1.4 | 8.0 | 75.4 | 5.9 | |
| Details | The Gun | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 |
4834 (12) |
7.6 | 1.4 | 5.9 | 80.6 | 3.9 | |
| Details | Beyond Lies the Wub | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 |
2682 (6) |
6.6 | 1.4 | 5.5 | 81.6 | 3.5 | |
| Details | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42069 (105) |
16.3 | 1.4 | 9.8 | 71.5 | 7.3 | |
| Details | The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Younges | Various | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
8003 (20) |
13.2 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 74.8 | 6.1 | |||
| 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 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 | |
| Details | Pollyanna | Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) | 1868 | 1920 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
54339 (135) |
11.6 | 1.4 | 7.8 | 76.5 | 5.5 | |
| 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 | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 1265 (1807) | 1321 (1882) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
38252 (95) |
26.1 | 1.4 | 13.6 | 62.1 | 11.1 |
| Details | True Bear Stories | Miller, Joaquin | 1837 | 1913 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 19000 |
42215 (105) |
21.2 | 1.4 | 11.4 | 66.9 | 9.2 | |
| Details | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) | 1859 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
66360 (165) |
19.8 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.4 | 8.5 | |
| 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 | Metamorphosis | Kafka, Franz | Wyllie, David | 1883 | 1924 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 7000 | 12000 |
21986 (54) |
28.3 | 1.39 | 14.3 | 60.4 | 11.9 |
| Details | The Call of the Wild | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 23000 |
31797 (79) |
18.7 | 1.39 | 10.4 | 69.9 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | Don Juan | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
124309 (310) |
37.0 | 1.39 | 17.6 | 52.1 | 15.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Grey, Zane | 1872 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 15000 | 24000 | 24000 |
102465 (256) |
12.4 | 1.39 | 7.8 | 76.5 | 5.7 | |
| Details | The Garden Party and Other Stories | Mansfield, Katherine | 1888 | 1923 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
56598 (141) |
10.5 | 1.39 | 6.6 | 78.9 | 4.9 | |
| Details | Little Jeanne of France | Brandeis, Madeline | 1897 | 1937 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 | 17000 |
15537 (38) |
10.6 | 1.39 | 6.4 | 78.6 | 4.9 | |
| Details | On the Nature of Things | Lucretius Carus, Titus | Leonard, William Ellery | 94BC (1876) | 49BC (1944) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 23000 |
73647 (184) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.5 | 47.2 | 17.1 |
| 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 Skull | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 14000 | 14000 | 14000 |
7747 (19) |
7.0 | 1.39 | 5.4 | 81.9 | 3.6 | |
| Details | The Hunting of the Snark | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 15000 | 18000 |
4969 (12) |
22.4 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Ethan Frome | Wharton, Edith | 1862 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 14000 |
34572 (86) |
19.4 | 1.39 | 10.3 | 69.7 | 8.4 | |
| 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 Book of Mormon | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1805 | 1844 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
275021 (687) |
35.8 | 1.39 | 17.5 | 53.1 | 14.7 | |
| Details | Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt | Baikie, James | 1866 | 1931 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
26825 (67) |
27.7 | 1.39 | 14.0 | 61.2 | 11.6 | |
| 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 | The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 | Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) | 1842 | 1930 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 18000 |
6761 (16) |
12.9 | 1.39 | 7.6 | 75.9 | 5.9 | |
| 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 | 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 | Little Philippe of Belgium | Brandeis, Madeline | 1897 | 1937 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 6000 | 7000 | 11000 |
17734 (44) |
9.9 | 1.39 | 6.5 | 79.0 | 4.7 | |
| 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 | Shelters, Shacks and Shanties | Beard, Daniel Carter | 1850 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
50042 (125) |
17.8 | 1.39 | 10.1 | 71.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | The Beast in the Jungle | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
18288 (45) |
20.3 | 1.39 | 11.6 | 68.4 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas | Becke, Louis | 1855 | 1913 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
66427 (166) |
21.6 | 1.39 | 11.4 | 67.0 | 9.3 | |
| Details | The Yellow Wallpaper | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | 1860 | 1935 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
6023 (15) |
15.4 | 1.38 | 8.3 | 74.2 | 6.7 | |
| Details | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
120387 (300) |
49.5 | 1.38 | 22.5 | 39.8 | 20.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman | Davis, Rebecca Harding | 1831 | 1910 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
14838 (37) |
13.6 | 1.38 | 7.8 | 76.2 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Sons and Lovers | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) | 1885 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
158692 (396) |
9.8 | 1.38 | 6.4 | 80.6 | 4.4 | |
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.