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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 An Introduction to the History of Science Libby, Walter 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 71214
    (178)
    18.6 1.72 15.3 42.9 11.9
    Details The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)
    17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    Details The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788 1860 3000 4000 9000 11000 14000 19000 184276
    (460)
    22.1 1.62 15.5 47.0 12.2
    Details Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure Stone, A. 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 56530
    (141)
    15.7 1.45 9.7 68.7 7.6
    Details Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 183540
    (458)
    24.9 1.6 16.0 46.6 12.9
    Details Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Richardson, Samuel 1689 1761 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 221156
    (552)
    26.6 1.37 13.2 63.7 11.0
    Details Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise Maginnis, Charles Donagh 1867 1955 3000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 16817
    (42)
    14.9 1.61 12.1 55.5 9.2
    Details The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale 2000 5000 5000 7000 11000 13000 1406
    (3)
    18.5 1.46 11.5 64.8 8.8
    Details Adventurings in the Psychical Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) 1874 1959 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 56849
    (142)
    21.3 1.6 14.5 49.8 11.6
    Details Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) 1874 1965 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 258577
    (646)
    15.5 1.42 9.6 70.9 7.2
    Details Mark Twain's Speeches Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 92337
    (230)
    19.2 1.47 11.6 63.2 9.2
    Details The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies Anonymous 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 19000 25020
    (62)
    26.8 1.48 14.9 54.8 12.3
    Details All About Coffee Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) 1873 1945 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 22000 387030
    (967)
    13.8 1.67 11.8 51.5 9.5
    Details A Watcher in The Woods Sharp, Dallas Lore 1870 1929 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 30932
    (77)
    20.5 1.42 10.9 65.8 9.2
    Details The Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration; with Observations on Wilson, Thomas 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 22000 94225
    (235)
    9.4 1.66 10.9 57.1 7.6
    Details Thuvia, Maid of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 24000 46927
    (117)
    15.8 1.46 10.3 67.0 7.8
    Details Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o Milton, John 1608 1674 3000 6000 10000 13000 15000 21000 17989
    (44)
    44.3 1.51 22.9 34.0 19.5
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 6000 9000 12000 19000 11622
    (29)
    15.8 1.29 7.4 81.3 5.8
    Details The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886 1959 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 240707
    (601)
    19.2 1.43 11.1 66.2 8.8
    Details Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Abbott, Edwin Abbott 1838 1926 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 17000 33286
    (83)
    24.8 1.57 15.5 48.5 12.7
    Details The King in Yellow Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 71137
    (177)
    15.5 1.46 9.6 68.0 7.6
    Details Handwork in Wood Noyes, William 1862 1928 3000 5000 10000 13000 17000 21000 58844
    (147)
    9.0 1.48 7.3 72.5 5.4
    Details Pygmalion Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 33146
    (82)
    10.4 1.48 8.2 71.5 5.9
    Details The Alchemist Jonson, Ben 1573 1637 4000 8000 12000 16000 21000 24000 47958
    (119)
    7.6 1.47 7.0 74.7 4.7
    Details Flappers and Philosophers Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 59737
    (149)
    13.4 1.48 9.2 67.8 7.1
    Details The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete 3000 6000 8000 12000 15000 22000 35371
    (88)
    24.1 1.35 12.3 68.0 9.8
    Details Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 169364
    (423)
    18.2 1.33 9.2 76.0 7.2
    Details Line and Form (1900) Crane, Walter 1845 1915 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 44073
    (110)
    32.9 1.64 19.6 34.8 16.6
    Details Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 51555
    (128)
    28.8 1.5 16.0 50.9 13.3
    Details The Blue Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 138225
    (345)
    24.9 1.35 12.4 67.7 10.0
    Details The Art of Politicks Bramston, James 1694 1744 4000 8000 12000 17000 20000 24000 10432
    (26)
    16.9 1.68 13.6 47.7 10.8
    Details English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a ne Kirkham, Samuel 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 22000 91181
    (227)
    13.9 1.56 11.3 60.4 8.3
    Details Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 84493
    (211)
    12.1 1.5 9.1 67.6 6.8
    Details The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 52382
    (130)
    19.1 1.41 11.0 67.9 8.5
    Details The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 48890
    (122)
    17.0 1.45 10.3 66.8 8.2
    Details The Morning Glory Club Kyle, George A. 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 47254
    (118)
    13.3 1.47 9.2 68.8 7.0
    Details Notes from the Underground Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 43766
    (109)
    18.1 1.48 11.3 63.5 8.9
    Details The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne 1820 1849 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 166923
    (417)
    23.0 1.47 13.2 59.0 10.8
    Details The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 7000 9000 12000 16000 11304
    (28)
    14.1 1.46 9.7 68.8 7.2
    Details All Things Considered Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 59337
    (148)
    21.3 1.54 13.6 54.7 10.9
    Details History of the United States Beard, Mary Ritter 1876 1958 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 199929
    (499)
    18.8 1.71 15.4 42.7 12.0
    Details The Last Man Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 173882
    (434)
    25.1 1.53 15.1 52.3 12.2
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)
    18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    Details Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Bellamy, Edward 1850 1898 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 77522
    (193)
    24.0 1.55 15.1 51.1 12.1
    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 Aesop's Fables Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 12261
    (30)
    19.3 1.3 9.7 77.1 7.3
    Details A Room with a View Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879 1970 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 65560
    (163)
    11.3 1.45 8.3 72.5 5.9
    Details Japanese Fairy Tales Ozaki, Yei Theodora 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 70489
    (176)
    20.6 1.36 10.9 70.7 8.5
    Details Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Young, Filson 1876 1938 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 161166
    (402)
    35.3 1.5 19.2 44.2 15.9
    Details Eve's Diary, Complete Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 6746
    (16)
    19.9 1.37 10.4 70.6 8.4

    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.