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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 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 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 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 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 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 The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 24000 169570
    (423)
    21.2 1.46 12.7 61.8 9.9
    Details Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) (1924) 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 24000 87152
    (217)
    19.4 1.47 11.8 62.6 9.3
    Details Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Bulfinch, Thomas 1796 1867 3000 6000 9000 13000 17000 24000 145570
    (363)
    21.7 1.48 13.2 59.5 10.4
    Details Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 24000 70188
    (175)
    20.5 1.48 12.3 61.1 9.8
    Details The 2010 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 24000 1297237
    (3243)
    13.8 2.0 16.9 23.4 13.4
    Details The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton, Robert 1577 1640 4000 8000 14000 17000 20000 24000 513147
    (1282)
    11.3 1.67 11.6 54.3 8.5
    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 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 Ulysses Joyce, James 1882 1941 4000 7000 11000 14000 18000 23000 260586
    (651)
    11.2 1.5 8.7 68.9 6.4
    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 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 Marlowe, Christopher 1564 1593 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 23000 19258
    (48)
    12.3 1.46 8.2 70.8 6.4
    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 Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated Dante Alighieri Cary, Henry Francis 1265 (1772) 1321 (1844) 4000 7000 11000 13000 17000 23000 108262
    (270)
    24.5 1.34 12.1 68.4 9.8
    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 Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 23000 58153
    (145)
    21.3 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.3
    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 Paradise Lost Milton, John 1608 1674 4000 7000 13000 18000 18000 23000 79709
    (199)
    49.9 1.37 22.9 40.2 20.1
    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 The Hindu-Arabic Numerals Karpinski, Louis Charles 1878 1956 3000 6000 11000 15000 18000 23000 45182
    (112)
    11.6 1.69 11.9 51.6 8.9
    Details Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Berens, E.M. 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 104008
    (260)
    23.7 1.62 16.1 45.3 12.8
    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 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 Paradise Lost Milton, John 1608 1674 4000 7000 11000 13000 17000 23000 80144
    (200)
    43.3 1.42 21.0 42.9 18.0
    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 Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br Vinycomb, John 4000 7000 12000 16000 19000 23000 52424
    (131)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.3 12.2
    Details Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Bradford, William 1590 1657 2000 4000 8000 11000 16000 23000 169207
    (423)
    21.2 1.45 12.2 62.4 9.8
    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 A Text-Book of the History of Painting Van Dyke, John Charles 1856 1932 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 23000 70887
    (177)
    14.4 1.71 12.8 47.9 10.2
    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 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 Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 9000 13000 17000 23000 187600
    (469)
    26.2 1.32 12.9 68.5 10.2
    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 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 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 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 Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) 1863 1924 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 23000 17268
    (43)
    17.7 1.56 12.6 56.6 9.8
    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 History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) 1873 1930 3000 5000 7000 11000 15000 23000 113094
    (282)
    27.4 1.61 17.3 43.2 14.0
    Details The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Saemund Sigfusson Blackwell, I. A. 1179 1241 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 23000 84459
    (211)
    11.7 1.42 7.6 75.2 5.7
    Details The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Churchill, Winston 1874 1965 3000 5000 9000 13000 13000 23000 124226
    (310)
    19.9 1.61 14.3 50.3 11.2
    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

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