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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 Piazza Tales Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 78731
    (196)
    23.0 1.55 14.2 52.4 11.7
    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 Ivanhoe Scott, Walter, Sir 1771 1832 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 190957
    (477)
    28.7 1.49 16.0 51.5 13.2
    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 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
    Details The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Digby, Kenelm 1603 1665 3000 6000 10000 14000 18000 23000 92490
    (231)
    27.3 1.37 13.1 63.1 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 The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights Knowles, James, Sir 1831 1908 3000 5000 10000 12000 15000 21000 93384
    (233)
    26.0 1.32 12.6 68.7 10.1
    Details Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 10000 15000 18000 24000 102277
    (255)
    15.2 1.52 10.9 62.5 8.3
    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 Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration; with Observations on Wilson, Thomas 4000 7000 10000 14000 18000 22000 94225
    (235)
    9.4 1.66 10.9 57.1 7.6
    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 English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a ne Kirkham, Samuel 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 22000 91181
    (227)
    13.9 1.56 11.3 60.4 8.3
    Details Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1265 (1807) 1321 (1882) 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23000 38252
    (95)
    26.1 1.4 13.6 62.1 11.1
    Details The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography Butler, Samuel 1774 1839 3000 6000 10000 17000 19000 19000 1703
    (4)
    18.1 1.85 16.9 31.6 13.4
    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 Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair 1885 1951 3000 5000 10000 16000 21000 21000 120915
    (302)
    15.4 1.49 10.0 65.0 8.0
    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 Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Freud, Sigmund Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1856 (1874) 1939 (1948) 3000 6000 10000 11000 16000 18000 40617
    (101)
    25.5 1.84 20.0 25.3 16.1
    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 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 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 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 93549
    (233)
    22.4 1.57 14.4 51.3 11.7
    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 The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 19000 82835
    (207)
    23.3 1.53 14.2 54.0 11.5
    Details Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 1819 1892 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 22000 120543
    (301)
    33.2 1.46 16.8 49.9 14.6
    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 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 Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Welsh, Peter C. 3000 5000 9000 13000 14000 21000 11740
    (29)
    15.1 1.77 14.4 41.3 11.3
    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 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 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 Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Litchfield, Frederick 1850 1930 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 25000 73893
    (184)
    20.4 1.66 15.3 45.4 12.0
    Details The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 Wordsworth, William 1770 1850 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 21000 118027
    (295)
    29.5 1.48 15.9 52.0 13.3
    Details Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous 4000 4000 9000 14000 15000 17000 20223
    (50)
    16.2 1.38 8.7 73.6 7.0
    Details Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramahansa 1893 1952 3000 6000 9000 13000 16000 22000 153564
    (383)
    15.3 1.66 12.6 50.5 10.0
    Details Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) 1873 1936 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 22000 149754
    (374)
    21.1 1.64 14.9 46.6 12.0
    Details Twice Told Tales Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 20000 145292
    (363)
    23.8 1.5 13.9 55.3 11.5
    Details Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The fiddle and the bow, The paradise of fools, Visions Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love) 1850 1912 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 21000 29397
    (73)
    21.5 1.46 12.3 61.5 10.0
    Details A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Casas, Bartolomé de las 1474 1566 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 30124
    (75)
    53.7 1.51 26.5 24.5 23.2
    Details Riders of the Purple Sage Grey, Zane 1872 1939 3000 5000 9000 15000 24000 24000 102465
    (256)
    12.4 1.39 7.8 76.5 5.7
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 137832
    (344)
    21.9 1.49 13.5 58.2 10.6

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