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 Pied Piper of Hamelin | Browning, Robert | 1812 | 1889 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 16000 | 20000 |
2145 (5) |
23.3 | 1.38 | 11.3 | 66.5 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Erotica Romana | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | 1749 | 1832 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 24000 |
6681 (16) |
16.7 | 1.48 | 10.8 | 64.5 | 8.4 | |
| Details | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Pyle, Howard | 1853 | 1911 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 22000 |
111009 (277) |
22.3 | 1.31 | 10.1 | 73.7 | 8.5 | |
| Details | A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) | Cutter, Calvin | 1807 | 1872 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 24000 |
134981 (337) |
10.9 | 1.62 | 10.9 | 58.6 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Odyssey of Homer | Homer | Cowper, William | 750BC (1731) | 650BC (1800) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
116500 (291) |
22.1 | 1.43 | 12.4 | 63.1 | 10.0 |
| Details | Ossian in Germany Bibliography, General Survey, Ossian's Influence upon Klopstoc | Tombo, Rudolf | 1875 | 1914 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 16000 | 23000 |
48589 (121) |
5.9 | 1.7 | 9.7 | 56.9 | 6.8 | |
| Details | Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes | Aeschylus | Buckley, Theodore Alois | 525BC (1825) | 456BC (1856) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 23000 |
27489 (68) |
12.4 | 1.53 | 9.8 | 64.4 | 7.4 |
| Details | Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate | Nevinson, John L. | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 25000 |
9332 (23) |
20.1 | 1.67 | 14.7 | 45.4 | 11.9 | |||
| Details | Arabian nights. English | Anonymous | Burton, Richard Francis, Sir | (1821) | (1890) | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 22000 |
172497 (431) |
25.8 | 1.41 | 13.4 | 61.6 | 11.1 |
| Details | The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete | Dante Alighieri | Cary, Henry Francis | 1265 (1772) | 1321 (1844) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
36446 (91) |
22.3 | 1.34 | 11.1 | 71.3 | 8.8 |
| Details | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Pyle, Howard | 1853 | 1911 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 22000 |
110924 (277) |
22.3 | 1.31 | 10.1 | 73.7 | 8.5 | |
| 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 Iliad | Homer | Pope, Alexander | 750BC (1688) | 650BC (1744) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
188352 (470) |
23.1 | 1.42 | 12.7 | 63.4 | 10.2 |
| Details | The Devil's Dictionary | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
58601 (146) |
13.9 | 1.62 | 11.9 | 55.3 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | Omens and Superstitions of Southern India | Thurston, Edgar | 1855 | 1935 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
93609 (234) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.6 | 54.1 | 10.9 | |
| Details | Moby Dick, or, the whale | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
211314 (528) |
21.5 | 1.49 | 12.6 | 59.4 | 10.3 | |
| 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 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Irving, Washington | 1783 | 1859 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
12209 (30) |
35.0 | 1.51 | 18.3 | 43.9 | 15.8 | |
| Details | The Masque of the Red Death | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 18000 |
2384 (5) |
23.6 | 1.48 | 14.1 | 57.9 | 11.1 | |
| Details | The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Din | Ziemann, Hugo | 1828 | 1926 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
219613 (549) |
15.7 | 1.43 | 9.1 | 69.6 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec | Aristotle | 384BC | 322BC | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
107312 (268) |
26.1 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.5 | 11.7 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 13000 | 13000 |
1399 (3) |
13.9 | 1.54 | 9.0 | 62.5 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Music Notation and Terminology | Gehrkens, Karl Wilson | 1882 | 1975 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
40795 (101) |
13.0 | 1.66 | 11.8 | 53.5 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | Kim | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 16000 | 22000 |
103135 (257) |
12.6 | 1.42 | 7.8 | 73.9 | 6.1 | |
| Details | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyám | FitzGerald, Edward | 1048 (1809) | 1122 (1883) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
11527 (28) |
18.2 | 1.46 | 11.1 | 64.5 | 8.8 |
| Details | The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 16000 | 18000 | 23000 |
9268 (23) |
12.3 | 1.68 | 11.9 | 52.0 | 9.1 | |||
| Details | In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius | 1469 | 1536 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
44403 (111) |
48.2 | 1.52 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 21.1 | |
| Details | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | Ovid | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) | 43BC (1816) | 18 (1878) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 25000 |
123549 (308) |
20.1 | 1.5 | 12.7 | 59.9 | 9.9 |
| Details | She | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
129365 (323) |
27.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 54.7 | 12.4 | |
| 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 Tale of Tom Kitten | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 3000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 13000 | 13000 |
754 (1) |
15.1 | 1.51 | 10.2 | 64.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Golden Asse | Apuleius, Lucius | 125 | 180 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80574 (201) |
51.6 | 1.43 | 24.2 | 33.7 | 21.4 | |
| Details | Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers | Hughes, Talbot | 1869 | 1942 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
30554 (76) |
12.8 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 63.9 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi | Pierce, Ray Vaughn | 1840 | 1914 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 21000 |
381700 (954) |
16.9 | 1.71 | 14.4 | 45.3 | 11.1 | |
| Details | Keats: Poems Published in 1820 | Keats, John | 1795 | 1821 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 24000 |
38774 (96) |
11.3 | 1.43 | 7.9 | 74.1 | 5.7 | |
| Details | The Aeneid English | Virgil | Dryden, John | 70BC (1631) | 19BC (1700) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
106024 (265) |
24.5 | 1.34 | 11.8 | 68.2 | 9.8 |
| Details | The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
121886 (304) |
20.6 | 1.42 | 11.7 | 66.2 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Textiles and Clothing | Watson, Kate Heintz | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
41633 (104) |
17.9 | 1.52 | 11.6 | 59.8 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | The Book of Household Management | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
488058 (1220) |
15.8 | 1.5 | 10.5 | 63.9 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Var | Sanborn, Alvan Francis | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
114300 (285) |
24.2 | 1.64 | 16.2 | 43.1 | 13.3 | |||
| Details | Ramayana. English | Valmiki | Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) | (1826) | (1906) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
394725 (986) |
19.0 | 1.38 | 10.5 | 70.4 | 8.1 |
| Details | The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a | Trusler, John | 1735 | 1820 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
41272 (103) |
26.5 | 1.58 | 16.4 | 46.4 | 13.4 | |
| Details | The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch | Petrarca, Francesco | 1304 | 1374 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
189869 (474) |
22.6 | 1.43 | 12.7 | 63.0 | 10.1 | |
| Details | The Raven | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 24000 |
7059 (17) |
19.1 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 56.5 | 10.1 | |
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.