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 | 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 Grammar of English Grammars | Brown, Goold | 1791 | 1857 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
875923 (2189) |
10.3 | 1.55 | 9.6 | 65.3 | 6.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | |
| Details | Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation | Thomssen, E. G. | 4000 | 7000 | 14000 | 17000 | 18000 | 22000 |
59096 (147) |
9.9 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 55.9 | 7.9 | |||
| Details | Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face | Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) | 1905 | 2002 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 13000 |
35128 (87) |
9.9 | 1.44 | 7.8 | 74.7 | 5.3 | |
| 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 | An English Grammar | Sewell, James Witt | 1865 | 1955 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
73343 (183) |
9.9 | 1.56 | 9.7 | 64.8 | 6.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | |
| 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 | Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | West, Julius | 1860 (1891) | 1904 (1918) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
66807 (167) |
9.8 | 1.46 | 7.6 | 73.3 | 5.5 |
| Details | The Sea-Gull | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | 1860 | 1904 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 16000 |
18866 (47) |
9.7 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 75.7 | 5.1 | |
| Details | Cyrano De Bergerac | Rostand, Edmond | Thomas, Gladys | 1868 | 1918 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
34576 (86) |
9.7 | 1.45 | 7.4 | 74.4 | 5.3 |
| Details | Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No | Sophocles | Murray, Gilbert | 495BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 | 23000 |
17732 (44) |
9.6 | 1.35 | 6.9 | 82.5 | 4.1 |
| 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 Complete Works of William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 | 23000 |
897318 (2243) |
9.5 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 79.1 | 4.6 | |
| Details | The Seven Plays in English Verse | Sophocles | Campbell, Lewis | 495BC (1830) | 406BC (1908) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 23000 |
91256 (228) |
9.5 | 1.36 | 6.6 | 82.2 | 4.2 |
| Details | The Robbers | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
49365 (123) |
9.5 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 76.3 | 5.0 | |
| 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 | The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affectin | Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James) | 1881 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
42645 (106) |
9.4 | 1.6 | 9.7 | 62.1 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | 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 | A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and P | Dewey, Melvil | 1851 | 1931 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
11325 (28) |
9.2 | 2.13 | 16.5 | 17.7 | 13.1 | |
| 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 | Roget's Thesaurus | Roget, Peter Mark | 1779 | 1869 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 | 21000 | 23000 | 25000 |
180410 (451) |
9.1 | 1.94 | 13.6 | 33.6 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | Clouds | Aristophanes | Hickie, William James | 446BC | 385BC | 3000 | 7000 | 18000 | 18000 | 20000 | 22000 |
15272 (38) |
8.9 | 1.42 | 7.0 | 78.1 | 4.6 |
| Details | The Defenders | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 14000 |
8545 (21) |
8.9 | 1.44 | 6.9 | 76.2 | 4.9 | |
| 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 | L'avare. English | Molière | Wall, Charles Heron | 1622 | 1673 | 2000 | 3000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
22064 (55) |
8.8 | 1.37 | 6.2 | 82.1 | 4.0 |
| Details | An Enemy of the People | Ibsen, Henrik | Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) | 1828 (1864) | 1906 (1945) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
30158 (75) |
8.8 | 1.45 | 6.7 | 75.2 | 5.0 |
| Details | Youth | Asimov, Isaac | 1920 | 1992 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 6000 | 9000 | 14000 |
10013 (25) |
8.6 | 1.43 | 7.1 | 77.0 | 4.6 | |
| 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 | The Game of Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
13040 (32) |
8.5 | 1.46 | 7.4 | 74.7 | 4.9 | |
| Details | Beyond the Door | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 8000 | 9000 |
2451 (6) |
8.4 | 1.35 | 5.4 | 84.3 | 3.6 | |
| Details | Ghosts | Ibsen, Henrik | Archer, William | 1828 (1856) | 1906 (1924) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
23525 (58) |
8.4 | 1.44 | 6.4 | 76.7 | 4.7 |
| Details | Symbolic Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 |
46466 (116) |
8.4 | 1.53 | 8.2 | 68.5 | 5.8 | |
| Details | The Crystal Crypt | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 |
7313 (18) |
8.3 | 1.43 | 6.0 | 77.7 | 4.5 | |
| Details | Hamlet | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
28983 (72) |
8.3 | 1.43 | 6.8 | 77.6 | 4.5 | |
| Details | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1730 | 1774 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
22563 (56) |
8.3 | 1.42 | 6.0 | 78.2 | 4.4 | |
| Details | Latin for Beginners | D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) | 1860 | 1940 | 7000 | 13000 | 20000 | 22000 | 23000 | 24000 |
91186 (227) |
8.2 | 1.74 | 10.8 | 51.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, | Unknown | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 12000 | 15000 |
33352 (83) |
8.1 | 1.35 | 5.5 | 84.2 | 3.5 | |||
| Details | Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 23000 |
25924 (64) |
8.0 | 1.32 | 5.1 | 86.7 | 3.2 | |
| Details | A Doll's House : a play | Ibsen, Henrik | 1828 | 1906 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 15000 |
26051 (65) |
7.9 | 1.37 | 5.2 | 82.9 | 3.6 | |
| Details | Piper in the Woods | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
7221 (18) |
7.9 | 1.41 | 6.3 | 79.3 | 4.2 | |
| 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 | |
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.