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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 Variable Man Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 6000 8000 9000 18000 24824
    (62)
    7.8 1.51 7.4 71.3 5.3
    Details Mr. Spaceship Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 4000 6000 7000 11000 10529
    (26)
    7.7 1.44 6.3 77.2 4.4
    Details The Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)
    7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    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 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 An Ideal Husband Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 1000 3000 5000 7000 10000 17000 28974
    (72)
    7.5 1.47 6.3 75.2 4.6
    Details The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18000 10194
    (25)
    7.3 1.75 11.5 51.8 7.8
    Details A Doll's House Ibsen, Henrik 1828 1906 1000 2000 4000 6000 8000 15000 24007
    (60)
    7.2 1.34 5.0 85.8 3.1
    Details Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of Schlebecker, John T. 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 22455
    (56)
    7.1 1.71 9.7 54.7 7.4
    Details 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Grose, Francis 1731 1791 5000 8000 13000 15000 19000 24000 80819
    (202)
    7.1 1.53 6.6 70.3 5.2
    Details The Skull Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 14000 14000 14000 7747
    (19)
    7.0 1.39 5.4 81.9 3.6
    Details Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Scott, Charles A. 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 15000 13160
    (32)
    6.6 1.39 5.1 82.1 3.4
    Details Beyond Lies the Wub Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 2682
    (6)
    6.6 1.4 5.5 81.6 3.5
    Details Hedda Gabler Ibsen, Henrik Gosse, Edmund 1828 (1849) 1906 (1928) 1000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 28907
    (72)
    6.6 1.42 5.2 80.1 3.7
    Details Second Variety Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 6000 8000 11000 15191
    (37)
    6.3 1.41 5.1 81.4 3.5
    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 Defenders of Democracy Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 12711
    (31)
    5.7 1.71 9.4 56.4 6.8
    Details New Latin Grammar Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) 1858 1921 7000 12000 20000 22000 23000 25000 63965
    (159)
    5.5 1.84 11.5 45.7 8.3
    Details The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 Various 5000 9000 15000 18000 20000 24000 53847
    (134)
    4.6 1.89 10.4 42.6 8.5
    Details First Lessons in Geography Or, Introduction to Youth's Manual of Geography Monteith, James 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 17000 5269
    (13)
    3.1 1.69 7.6 60.8 5.5
    Details A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 -Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 1912 7000 13000 14000 19000 22000 25000 99841
    (249)
    2.9 1.57 5.4 70.8 4.1
    Details A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia Bartholomew, J. G. 4000 8000 13000 17000 21000 24000 35280
    (88)
    1.7 2.01 9.8 35.5 8.7

    Notes:

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    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.
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    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.