This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Ann Ward | 1764 | 1823 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
289394 (723) |
27.3 | 1.53 | 16.5 | 49.8 | 13.1 | |
Details | Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) | 1822 | 1885 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
276868 (692) |
20.5 | 1.55 | 13.9 | 54.7 | 10.7 | |
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 | The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
274389 (685) |
30.2 | 1.57 | 17.9 | 43.2 | 14.7 | |
Details | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles | 1814 | 1889 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
273706 (684) |
23.0 | 1.57 | 15.0 | 50.7 | 11.9 | |
Details | My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. 1888 Edition | Anonymous | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
263497 (658) |
18.4 | 1.37 | 9.6 | 72.1 | 7.8 | |||
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 | Demonology and Devil-lore | Conway, Moncure Daniel | 1832 | 1907 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
259586 (648) |
23.5 | 1.56 | 14.8 | 51.0 | 12.0 | |
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 | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
256688 (641) |
18.6 | 1.72 | 15.8 | 42.3 | 12.0 | |
Details | The Possessed (The Devils) | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Garnett, Constance | 1821 (1861) | 1881 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
252520 (631) |
15.5 | 1.5 | 10.9 | 64.3 | 8.1 |
Details | Emile | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
251868 (629) |
25.8 | 1.44 | 14.1 | 58.8 | 11.5 | |
Details | The Woman in White | Collins, Wilkie | 1824 | 1889 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 16000 |
241638 (604) |
17.8 | 1.47 | 11.3 | 64.1 | 8.7 | |
Details | The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan | White, Ellen Gould Harmon | 1827 | 1915 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
241259 (603) |
17.1 | 1.53 | 12.3 | 60.2 | 9.1 | |
Details | Twenty Years After | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
240798 (601) |
13.6 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 69.5 | 7.0 | |
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 | The Idiot | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Martin, Eva M. | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
239039 (597) |
14.9 | 1.47 | 10.4 | 67.1 | 7.6 |
Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
Details | The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do | Popular Mechanics Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
231737 (579) |
15.1 | 1.44 | 9.7 | 69.8 | 7.3 | |||
Details | Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Exp | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
231338 (578) |
23.3 | 1.65 | 16.3 | 43.5 | 13.0 | |
Details | The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Livy | Spillan, D. (Daniel) | (1854) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
231205 (578) |
32.4 | 1.58 | 19.4 | 40.1 | 15.7 | |
Details | De vita Caesarum | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius | 75 | 160 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
228866 (572) |
26.5 | 1.63 | 17.5 | 42.4 | 13.9 | |
Details | The Three Musketeers | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
227889 (569) |
14.7 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 66.6 | 7.6 | |
Details | A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
225521 (563) |
31.6 | 1.65 | 19.8 | 35.3 | 16.2 | |
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 | Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World | Cook, James | 1728 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
220361 (550) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.3 | 62.8 | 9.8 | |
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 History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
215612 (539) |
48.7 | 1.41 | 23.1 | 37.8 | 20.1 |
Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
215540 (538) |
24.7 | 1.49 | 14.7 | 56.0 | 11.6 |
Details | Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G | Boswell, James | 1740 | 1795 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
214740 (536) |
20.2 | 1.52 | 12.9 | 57.9 | 10.2 | |
Details | The Old Curiosity Shop | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
213290 (533) |
20.8 | 1.43 | 12.0 | 64.6 | 9.4 | |
Details | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas | 1588 | 1679 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 |
211956 (529) |
34.2 | 1.51 | 19.0 | 44.3 | 15.6 | |
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 | The Voyage of the Beagle | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
210326 (525) |
21.0 | 1.57 | 13.8 | 52.6 | 11.1 | |
Details | Ponce de Leon The Rise of the Argentine Republic | Pilling, William | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
209446 (523) |
22.0 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.8 | 10.5 | |||
Details | The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races | Allen, Emory Adams | 1853 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
206643 (516) |
18.2 | 1.56 | 13.0 | 56.2 | 9.9 | ||
Details | The Critique of Pure Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) | 1724 (1830) | 1804 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 |
206467 (516) |
35.8 | 1.72 | 22.9 | 24.9 | 18.7 |
Details | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 | Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) | 1840 | 1914 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
206172 (515) |
29.9 | 1.59 | 18.0 | 41.9 | 14.8 | |
Details | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
205539 (513) |
35.3 | 1.67 | 21.2 | 29.5 | 17.9 | |
Details | English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- | Long, William J. (William Joseph) | 1867 | 1952 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204834 (512) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.5 | 12.2 | |
Details | The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | Crawley, Richard | 455BC (1840) | 395BC (1893) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
204634 (511) |
39.8 | 1.57 | 22.0 | 33.4 | 18.5 |
Details | The Mill on the Floss | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
204609 (511) |
22.6 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 62.3 | 10.2 | |
Details | Filipino Popular Tales | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204192 (510) |
15.5 | 1.45 | 9.9 | 68.4 | 7.6 | ||||
Details | Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Garnett, Constance | 1821 (1861) | 1881 (1946) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
202487 (506) |
14.3 | 1.47 | 10.0 | 67.6 | 7.4 |
Details | The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 | Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) | 1873 | 1915 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 21000 |
201803 (504) |
19.5 | 1.56 | 13.2 | 54.7 | 10.5 | |
Details | The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With | Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) | 1843 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
200768 (501) |
22.5 | 1.58 | 14.8 | 50.5 | 11.8 | |
Details | Etiquette | Post, Emily | 1873 | 1960 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
200614 (501) |
23.2 | 1.51 | 13.7 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |
Details | The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
200546 (501) |
34.4 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 36.7 | 16.7 | |
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 | Swann's Way | Proust, Marcel | Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) | 1871 (1889) | 1922 (1930) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
194407 (486) |
36.0 | 1.47 | 18.7 | 45.6 | 15.8 |
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.