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 | 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 | 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 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 Devil's Dictionary | Bierce, Ambrose | 1842 | 1914 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 22000 |
58601 (146) |
13.9 | 1.62 | 11.9 | 55.3 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | Omens and Superstitions of Southern India | Thurston, Edgar | 1855 | 1935 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
93609 (234) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.6 | 54.1 | 10.9 | |
| Details | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Irving, Washington | 1783 | 1859 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
12209 (30) |
35.0 | 1.51 | 18.3 | 43.9 | 15.8 | |
| 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 Seven Plays in English Verse | Sophocles | Campbell, Lewis | 495BC (1830) | 406BC (1908) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 23000 |
91256 (228) |
9.5 | 1.36 | 6.6 | 82.2 | 4.2 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Details | Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
132745 (331) |
17.9 | 1.72 | 15.0 | 42.8 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | The Viking Blood A Story of Seafaring | Wallace, Frederick William | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
138112 (345) |
16.3 | 1.45 | 9.7 | 67.8 | 7.8 | |||
| Details | Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) | Engel, Carl | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
71969 (179) |
19.4 | 1.67 | 15.0 | 45.6 | 11.7 | |||
| 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 | Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a | Bradford, William | 1590 | 1657 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 | 23000 |
169207 (423) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Kim | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 16000 | 22000 |
103135 (257) |
12.6 | 1.42 | 7.8 | 73.9 | 6.1 | |
| Details | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Browning, Robert | 1812 | 1889 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 16000 | 20000 |
2145 (5) |
23.3 | 1.38 | 11.3 | 66.5 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking | Unknown | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
14689 (36) |
10.4 | 1.49 | 7.6 | 70.3 | 6.0 | |||
| Details | The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition | Duncan, A. W. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
31665 (79) |
14.3 | 1.66 | 12.8 | 51.5 | 9.6 | |||
| Details | The Essays of Francis Bacon | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
52994 (132) |
29.0 | 1.48 | 16.2 | 51.9 | 13.2 | |
| 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 | The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi | Pierce, Ray Vaughn | 1840 | 1914 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 21000 |
381700 (954) |
16.9 | 1.71 | 14.4 | 45.3 | 11.1 | |
| 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 | Handbook of Embroidery | Higgin, L. | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 14000 | 16000 | 22000 |
14622 (36) |
14.0 | 1.57 | 10.7 | 59.9 | 8.4 | |||
| Details | The Book of Household Management | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
488058 (1220) |
15.8 | 1.5 | 10.5 | 63.9 | 8.3 | |
| Details | Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O | Zerbe, James Slough | 1850 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
37590 (93) |
11.4 | 1.51 | 9.2 | 67.5 | 6.7 | ||
| 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 | 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 | Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduct | Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) | 1863 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
17268 (43) |
17.7 | 1.56 | 12.6 | 56.6 | 9.8 | |
| Details | The Big Trip Up Yonder | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1922 | 2007 | 3000 | 5000 | 12000 | 16000 | 16000 | 16000 |
3562 (8) |
13.5 | 1.49 | 9.6 | 66.9 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Ramayana. English | Valmiki | Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) | (1826) | (1906) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
394725 (986) |
19.0 | 1.38 | 10.5 | 70.4 | 8.1 |
| 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 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 | 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 | Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
28603 (71) |
17.3 | 1.38 | 9.0 | 72.8 | 7.4 | |
| 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 | Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine | Elliott, James, Sir | 1880 | 1959 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
36438 (91) |
20.3 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.7 | 11.9 | |
| 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 Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
144849 (362) |
9.2 | 1.4 | 6.7 | 78.6 | 4.6 | |
| Details | French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France | Marie, de France, 12th cent. | Mason, Eugene | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
73605 (184) |
19.2 | 1.33 | 10.0 | 74.8 | 7.6 | ||
| Details | British Castles | Ashdown, Charles H. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
39601 (99) |
25.6 | 1.66 | 17.2 | 40.7 | 14.0 | |||
| 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 Descent of Man | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
298564 (746) |
17.6 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.4 | 10.9 | |
| 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 | 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 |
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.