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 | A Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 | 18000 |
3406 (8) |
50.8 | 1.53 | 25.1 | 25.5 | 22.3 | |
| Details | Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
51555 (128) |
28.8 | 1.5 | 16.0 | 50.9 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The Art of War | Sunzi | Giles, Lionel | (1875) | (1958) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
52452 (131) |
18.1 | 1.52 | 12.6 | 59.5 | 9.5 |
| Details | The Art of War | Sunzi | Giles, Lionel | (1875) | (1958) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
10489 (26) |
11.5 | 1.53 | 9.9 | 65.9 | 6.9 |
| 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 Elements of Style | Strunk, William | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
13203 (33) |
15.7 | 1.65 | 13.1 | 51.3 | 10.0 | |||
| Details | The Old Man of the Mountain | Strang, Herbert | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 20000 |
58447 (146) |
15.1 | 1.47 | 10.3 | 67.3 | 7.6 | |||
| Details | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | 1811 | 1896 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
180196 (450) |
17.2 | 1.42 | 10.1 | 69.0 | 7.9 | |
| Details | Fighting Byng A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure | Stone, A. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56530 (141) |
15.7 | 1.45 | 9.7 | 68.7 | 7.6 | |||
| Details | Dracula | Stoker, Bram | 1847 | 1912 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
159139 (397) |
18.2 | 1.36 | 9.8 | 73.3 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25369 (63) |
21.3 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
67669 (169) |
17.9 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.3 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
68147 (170) |
17.8 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.2 | 7.3 | |
| Details | A Child's Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
8785 (21) |
23.1 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 68.7 | 9.4 | |
| Details | Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
81525 (203) |
21.2 | 1.34 | 10.3 | 71.7 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25355 (63) |
21.4 | 1.44 | 12.2 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| 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 | On the Trail of The Immigrant | Steiner, Edward A. | 1866 | 1856 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
87463 (218) |
28.2 | 1.54 | 16.4 | 47.9 | 13.6 | |
| Details | Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms | Stein, Gertrude | 1874 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
14968 (37) |
15.1 | 1.46 | 9.3 | 68.2 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English | Stanton, Henry | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
13663 (34) |
20.6 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.6 | 12.0 | |||
| Details | Heidi (Gift Edition) | Spyri, Johanna | Stork, Elisabeth P. (Elisabeth Pausinger) | 1827 | 1901 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 |
51302 (128) |
13.6 | 1.39 | 8.4 | 75.4 | 6.1 |
| Details | Ethica. English | Spinoza, Benedictus de | 1632 | 1677 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 |
87693 (219) |
16.0 | 1.56 | 12.4 | 59.1 | 9.0 | |
| Details | Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I | Spenser, Edmund | 1552 | 1599 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 | 24000 |
70160 (175) |
17.3 | 1.43 | 10.4 | 68.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Practice and Science of Drawing | Speed, Harold | 1873 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
75941 (189) |
26.6 | 1.55 | 16.1 | 48.9 | 13.1 | ||
| Details | Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No | Sophocles | Murray, Gilbert | 495BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 | 23000 |
17732 (44) |
9.6 | 1.35 | 6.9 | 82.5 | 4.1 |
| Details | Oedipus Trilogy | Sophocles | Storr, Francis | 495BC (1839) | 406BC (1919) | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 24000 |
37158 (92) |
14.7 | 1.38 | 8.9 | 75.1 | 6.4 |
| 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 | 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 | Triplanetary | Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) | 1890 | 1965 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
56328 (140) |
17.4 | 1.56 | 12.1 | 57.2 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Sailing Alone Around the World | Slocum, Joshua | 1844 | 1910 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 13000 | 20000 |
69436 (173) |
22.4 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 62.0 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton | 1878 | 1968 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
147652 (369) |
22.3 | 1.39 | 12.0 | 66.4 | 9.5 | |
| Details | The Handbook of Soap Manufacture | Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert)Appleton, H. A. | 4000 | 9000 | 15000 | 17000 | 19000 | 24000 |
53752 (134) |
9.8 | 1.76 | 12.2 | 48.1 | 9.0 | |||
| Details | Shepp's Photographs of the World | Shepp, James W.Shepp, Daniel B. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
26227 (65) |
25.1 | 1.67 | 16.9 | 40.3 | 13.9 | |||
| Details | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
74768 (186) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.3 | 52.9 | 11.5 | |
| Details | The Last Man | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
173882 (434) |
25.1 | 1.53 | 15.1 | 52.3 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Discoverers and Explorers | Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard) | 1855 | 1903 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 | 17000 |
20101 (50) |
19.6 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 61.4 | 9.6 | |
| Details | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Shaw, Bernard | 1856 | 1950 | 2000 | 4000 | 9000 | 11000 | 12000 | 17000 |
34153 (85) |
12.7 | 1.47 | 9.0 | 69.2 | 6.8 | |
| Details | Man and Superman | Shaw, Bernard | 1856 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 14000 | 18000 |
68390 (170) |
12.1 | 1.51 | 9.4 | 66.6 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Pygmalion | Shaw, Bernard | 1856 | 1950 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
33146 (82) |
10.4 | 1.48 | 8.2 | 71.5 | 5.9 | |
| Details | A Watcher in The Woods | Sharp, Dallas Lore | 1870 | 1929 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30932 (77) |
20.5 | 1.42 | 10.9 | 65.8 | 9.2 | |
| Details | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 | 23000 |
897318 (2243) |
9.5 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 79.1 | 4.6 | |
| Details | Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 23000 |
25924 (64) |
8.0 | 1.32 | 5.1 | 86.7 | 3.2 | |
| 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 | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition | Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir | 1874 | 1922 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
144681 (361) |
17.8 | 1.47 | 11.0 | 64.4 | 8.7 | |
| Details | An English Grammar | Sewell, James Witt | 1865 | 1955 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
73343 (183) |
9.9 | 1.56 | 9.7 | 64.8 | 6.7 | |
| Details | Black Beauty | Sewell, Anna | 1820 | 1878 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
59721 (149) |
23.5 | 1.31 | 10.9 | 72.5 | 9.0 | |
| Details | Edison's Conquest of Mars | Serviss, Garrett Putman | 1851 | 1929 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
64861 (162) |
21.5 | 1.54 | 14.1 | 54.7 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Invention of Lithography | Senefelder, Alois | Muller, J. W. | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
87110 (217) |
24.2 | 1.54 | 14.5 | 52.3 | 12.0 | ||
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.