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 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 | 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 | Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor | Hands, A. F. Morris | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 19000 | 22000 |
5892 (14) |
16.3 | 1.56 | 11.6 | 58.6 | 9.1 | |||
| 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 | Life Is a Dream | Calderón de la Barca, Pedro | FitzGerald, Edward | 1600 (1809) | 1681 (1883) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 19000 |
17220 (43) |
16.5 | 1.38 | 9.4 | 73.3 | 7.1 |
| 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 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 | 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 | Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | 1866 | 1945 | 4000 | 7000 | 13000 | 13000 | 14000 | 24000 |
27302 (68) |
14.2 | 1.66 | 11.4 | 52.4 | 9.5 | |
| Details | Hamlet | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
28983 (72) |
8.3 | 1.43 | 6.8 | 77.6 | 4.5 | |
| 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 | |
| Details | Right Ho, Jeeves | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 13000 | 17000 | 24000 |
73251 (183) |
11.4 | 1.44 | 7.8 | 73.2 | 5.9 | |
| Details | Notre-Dame De Paris | Hugo, Victor | Hapgood, Isabel Florence | 1802 (1850) | 1885 (1928) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 25000 |
183996 (459) |
16.4 | 1.49 | 10.9 | 63.8 | 8.5 |
| 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 | 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
11354 (28) |
22.8 | 1.57 | 14.4 | 51.0 | 11.8 | |
| 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 Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Sterne, Laurence | 1713 | 1768 | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
179035 (447) |
43.2 | 1.45 | 21.0 | 40.2 | 18.4 | |
| Details | The Evolution of Fashion | Gardiner, Florence Mary | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
28786 (71) |
24.8 | 1.61 | 15.8 | 45.8 | 13.0 | |||
| Details | The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin | Potter, Beatrix | 1866 | 1943 | 2000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
1235 (3) |
18.4 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 65.0 | 8.8 | |
| 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 | Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
17989 (44) |
44.3 | 1.51 | 22.9 | 34.0 | 19.5 | |
| Details | Handwork in Wood | Noyes, William | 1862 | 1928 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 21000 |
58844 (147) |
9.0 | 1.48 | 7.3 | 72.5 | 5.4 | |
| 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 | Architecture Gothic and Renaissance | Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) | 1830 | 1903 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
54623 (136) |
17.7 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.1 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor | Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) | 1821 | 1878 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
87404 (218) |
20.7 | 1.45 | 11.9 | 62.9 | 9.6 | |
| 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 | Architecture Classic and Early Christian | Slater, John | 1847 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
54084 (135) |
18.1 | 1.66 | 14.3 | 48.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture | George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) | 1870 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
99523 (248) |
12.9 | 1.65 | 12.0 | 54.1 | 8.9 | ||
| Details | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
168617 (421) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.7 | 69.0 | 10.1 | |
| Details | The Fall of the House of Usher | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 20000 |
6977 (17) |
29.1 | 1.62 | 17.8 | 40.3 | 14.9 | |
| Details | Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 188 | Burroughs, Barkham | 1952 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
147356 (368) |
19.3 | 1.51 | 12.1 | 59.8 | 9.7 | ||
| Details | Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Common, Thomas | 1844 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 19000 |
110254 (275) |
15.5 | 1.48 | 10.1 | 66.0 | 7.9 |
| Details | Poetics. English | Aristotle | Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) | 384BC (1850) | 322BC (1910) | 3000 | 5000 | 11000 | 12000 | 14000 | 18000 |
15099 (37) |
23.4 | 1.59 | 16.0 | 48.9 | 12.2 |
| Details | How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five H | Benedict, Ralph Paine | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 12000 | 21000 |
59865 (149) |
19.9 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 54.1 | 10.7 | |||
| 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 Essays of Montaigne — Complete | Montaigne, Michel de | Cotton, Charles | 1533 (1630) | 1592 (1687) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
524667 (1311) |
38.4 | 1.52 | 20.3 | 39.6 | 17.3 |
| Details | Les Misérables | Hugo, Victor | Hapgood, Isabel Florence | 1802 (1850) | 1885 (1928) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
562958 (1407) |
15.6 | 1.5 | 10.9 | 64.1 | 8.2 |
| Details | Lysistrata | Aristophanes | 446BC | 385BC | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
14327 (35) |
12.9 | 1.49 | 9.4 | 67.9 | 7.0 | |
| 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 Prince and the Pauper | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 24000 |
69129 (172) |
40.3 | 1.43 | 19.6 | 44.9 | 17.0 | |
| 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 | 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 | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Taylor, Bayard | 1749 (1825) | 1832 (1878) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
36297 (90) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.6 | 71.3 | 6.6 |
| Details | The Ten Books on Architecture | Vitruvius Pollio | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
97942 (244) |
20.5 | 1.5 | 13.2 | 58.7 | 10.2 | |||
| Details | The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 |
790029 (1975) |
26.6 | 1.35 | 13.2 | 66.1 | 10.6 | ||||
| Details | An Essay on Man | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
46424 (116) |
19.3 | 1.37 | 10.5 | 71.1 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | |
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.