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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 Real Mother Goose 4000 6000 11000 14000 16000 24000 15838
    (39)
    18.5 1.32 8.4 76.6 7.2
    Details Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 4000 6000 9000 13000 16000 22000 65413
    (163)
    18.0 1.35 9.2 74.4 7.3
    Details Masters of Water-Colour Painting 3000 4000 7000 11000 15000 20000 4860
    (12)
    14.8 1.65 12.1 52.6 9.6
    Details Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) (1823) (1900) 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 16000 11680
    (29)
    12.8 1.43 8.7 73.0 6.3
    Details Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories 2000 4000 6000 12000 15000 15000 2706
    (6)
    18.5 1.34 9.2 74.6 7.5
    Details The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book 7000 16000 20000 22000 24000 25000 42736
    (106)
    7.5 1.68 9.8 56.9 7.2
    Details Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875) (1936) 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 18000 491525
    (1228)
    16.4 1.38 9.5 73.6 7.1
    Details The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 18000 114750
    (286)
    30.5 1.44 16.2 53.8 13.3
    Details Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828) (1889) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 127694
    (319)
    14.6 1.42 9.1 71.6 6.9
    Details The Art of Modern Lace Making 4000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 17344
    (43)
    16.0 1.55 11.2 59.5 8.9
    Details Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 100810
    (252)
    18.0 1.48 11.5 63.6 8.9
    Details Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 146705
    (366)
    15.3 1.43 9.6 70.6 7.2
    Details The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 84282
    (210)
    22.3 1.46 12.9 60.3 10.4
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 110838
    (277)
    18.2 1.48 11.5 63.5 8.9
    Details The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 123834
    (309)
    15.0 1.44 9.5 69.5 7.3
    Details The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Yule, Henry, Sir (1820) (1889) 3000 5000 9000 13000 15000 22000 313144
    (782)
    16.0 1.55 11.7 59.5 8.9
    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 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 The Oxford Book of American Essays 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 161947
    (404)
    24.8 1.55 15.1 50.8 12.3
    Details Short-Stories 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 73428
    (183)
    17.4 1.51 11.6 61.2 9.0
    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 World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation 4000 6000 9000 12000 15000 23000 86027
    (215)
    18.6 1.35 9.6 74.0 7.6

    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.