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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 Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicat Celnart, Elisabeth 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 45211
    (113)
    26.3 1.56 16.2 48.0 13.1
    Details Poetics. English Aristotle Bywater, Ingram 384BC (1840) 322BC (1914) 3000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 18459
    (46)
    26.1 1.54 16.2 49.9 12.8
    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 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 The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales 2000 4000 8000 11000 13000 18000 114750
    (286)
    30.5 1.44 16.2 53.8 13.3
    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 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 Moral Principles in Education Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 4000 6000 7000 12000 10720
    (26)
    22.1 1.69 16.1 41.4 13.0
    Details Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 73971
    (184)
    27.2 1.54 16.1 49.0 13.2
    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 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 The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners Ruskin, John 1819 1900 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 72573
    (181)
    29.6 1.47 16.0 52.7 13.3
    Details Love and Freindship [sic] Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32937
    (82)
    26.6 1.53 16.0 50.0 12.9
    Details Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 183540
    (458)
    24.9 1.6 16.0 46.6 12.9
    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 Bushido, the Soul of Japan Nitobe, Inazo 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 19000 33042
    (82)
    25.1 1.6 16.0 46.1 13.1
    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 Supply and Demand Henderson, Hubert Douglas, Sir 1890 1952 3000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 50755
    (126)
    23.5 1.61 15.9 46.8 12.6
    Details Apology Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 16049
    (40)
    28.8 1.46 15.8 54.0 12.9
    Details The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 99183
    (247)
    24.2 1.6 15.8 47.2 12.7
    Details From Gretna Green to Land's End A Literary Journey in England. Bates, Katharine Lee 1859 1929 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 21000 71781
    (179)
    28.9 1.52 15.8 49.2 13.6
    Details Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) 1723 (1771) 1789 (1797) 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 18000 39094
    (97)
    21.4 1.64 15.8 46.2 12.1
    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 Alexander the Great Makers of History Abbott, Jacob 1803 1879 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 52859
    (132)
    23.5 1.6 15.8 48.0 12.4
    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 Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 Vogel, Robert M. 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 16000 12934
    (32)
    20.1 1.73 15.8 40.1 12.7
    Details The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Equiano, Olaudah 1745 1797 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 81664
    (204)
    29.1 1.46 15.7 53.5 13.0
    Details Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)
    30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. I of II) Bucke, Charles 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 22000 144564
    (361)
    24.0 1.58 15.7 48.5 12.5
    Details Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1769 1834 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 20000 484139
    (1210)
    22.4 1.6 15.6 48.9 12.0
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 162979
    (407)
    21.7 1.68 15.6 42.9 12.7
    Details Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evi Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Huggard, E. M. 1646 1716 3000 4000 7000 9000 13000 20000 184166
    (460)
    24.4 1.56 15.6 50.1 12.3
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 98568
    (246)
    25.9 1.55 15.6 49.8 12.7
    Details A Princess of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 67354
    (168)
    28.6 1.5 15.5 51.3 13.2
    Details Turner Monkhouse, William Cosmo 1840 1901 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 39762
    (99)
    26.3 1.52 15.5 51.2 12.7
    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 A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Lee, Sidney, Sir 1859 1926 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 20000 132934
    (332)
    20.0 1.69 15.5 43.2 12.2
    Details Précis de l'art de la guerre. English Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de Mendell, George H. (George Henry) 1779 (1831) 1869 (1902) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 139359
    (348)
    21.4 1.63 15.5 46.9 12.0
    Details Ghostly Phenomena O'Donnell, Elliott 1872 1965 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 15000 34834
    (87)
    25.6 1.56 15.5 48.9 12.8
    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 A Child's History of England Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 161921
    (404)
    29.2 1.44 15.5 55.5 12.8
    Details The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788 1860 3000 4000 9000 11000 14000 19000 184276
    (460)
    22.1 1.62 15.5 47.0 12.2
    Details Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Abbott, Edwin Abbott 1838 1926 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 17000 33286
    (83)
    24.8 1.57 15.5 48.5 12.7
    Details Biblical Geography and History Kent, Charles Foster 1867 1925 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 99638
    (249)
    22.8 1.62 15.4 46.3 12.5
    Details History of the United States Beard, Mary Ritter 1876 1958 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 199929
    (499)
    18.8 1.71 15.4 42.7 12.0
    Details Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Edwards, Jonathan 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 70313
    (175)
    25.6 1.49 15.3 55.1 11.9
    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 Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Abbott, Edwin Abbott 1838 1926 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 17000 33806
    (84)
    24.3 1.58 15.3 48.8 12.5
    Details An Introduction to the History of Science Libby, Walter 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 71214
    (178)
    18.6 1.72 15.3 42.9 11.9

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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.