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 Shunned House | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) | 1890 | 1937 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
10663 (26) |
30.4 | 1.6 | 17.9 | 40.3 | 15.2 | |
Details | The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | 1844 | 1900 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
27312 (68) |
22.6 | 1.6 | 14.9 | 48.3 | 12.1 | |
Details | On the Sublime | Longinus, 1st cent. | Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) | (1913) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
28948 (72) |
17.0 | 1.6 | 13.0 | 54.3 | 9.9 | |
Details | The Pencil of Nature | Talbot, William Henry Fox | 1800 | 1877 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 |
9368 (23) |
19.4 | 1.6 | 13.8 | 52.0 | 10.8 | |
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 | Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People | Mallery, Garrick | 1831 | 1894 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
115635 (289) |
19.9 | 1.6 | 14.1 | 51.4 | 11.0 | |
Details | The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
200546 (501) |
34.4 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 36.7 | 16.7 | |
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 | Adventurings in the Psychical | Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington) | 1874 | 1959 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
56849 (142) |
21.3 | 1.6 | 14.5 | 49.8 | 11.6 | |
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 | 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 | On War — Volume 1 | Clausewitz, Carl von | Graham, J. J., Colonel | 1780 | 1831 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
106755 (266) |
34.3 | 1.59 | 20.0 | 37.3 | 16.6 |
Details | The Antichrist | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) | 1844 (1880) | 1900 (1956) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
32360 (80) |
32.0 | 1.59 | 18.7 | 39.5 | 15.7 |
Details | Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti | Henry, Henry A. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
40370 (100) |
27.5 | 1.59 | 17.7 | 44.1 | 13.9 | |||
Details | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 | Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) | 1840 | 1914 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
206172 (515) |
29.9 | 1.59 | 18.0 | 41.9 | 14.8 | |
Details | Shakspere & Typography | Blades, William | 1824 | 1890 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
6763 (16) |
19.3 | 1.59 | 13.4 | 53.1 | 10.6 | |
Details | The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form | Hibberd, Shirley | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
40114 (100) |
17.5 | 1.59 | 12.8 | 54.9 | 10.0 | |||
Details | From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
90543 (226) |
15.8 | 1.59 | 12.5 | 56.4 | 9.3 | |
Details | The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With | Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher) | 1843 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
200768 (501) |
22.5 | 1.58 | 14.8 | 50.5 | 11.8 | |
Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
77252 (193) |
18.8 | 1.58 | 13.2 | 53.7 | 10.5 | |
Details | Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad | Fea, Allan | 1860 | 1956 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 19000 |
33872 (84) |
31.2 | 1.58 | 17.8 | 41.2 | 15.3 | |
Details | How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents a | Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor | 1873 | 1935 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
134858 (337) |
19.9 | 1.58 | 13.6 | 52.7 | 10.9 | |
Details | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) | Burke, Edmund | 1729 | 1797 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
152778 (381) |
27.5 | 1.58 | 17.3 | 44.9 | 13.8 | |
Details | Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier | Dreyfus, Suelette | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
151211 (378) |
13.5 | 1.58 | 10.6 | 59.2 | 8.4 | |||
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 | 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 | 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 | History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) | Maspero, G. (Gaston) | McClure, M. L. | 1846 | 1916 (1918) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
92419 (231) |
25.9 | 1.58 | 16.3 | 46.5 | 13.2 |
Details | The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Livy | Spillan, D. (Daniel) | (1854) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
231205 (578) |
32.4 | 1.58 | 19.4 | 40.1 | 15.7 | |
Details | New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin | Various | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
130202 (325) |
23.1 | 1.58 | 15.0 | 49.8 | 12.0 | |||
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 | 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 | A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 | -Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) | 1835 | 1912 | 7000 | 13000 | 14000 | 19000 | 22000 | 25000 |
99841 (249) |
2.9 | 1.57 | 5.4 | 70.8 | 4.1 | |
Details | The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
274389 (685) |
30.2 | 1.57 | 17.9 | 43.2 | 14.7 | |
Details | The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | Crawley, Richard | 455BC (1840) | 395BC (1893) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
204634 (511) |
39.8 | 1.57 | 22.0 | 33.4 | 18.5 |
Details | The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection | Casteel, D. B. | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 | 20000 |
12517 (31) |
21.6 | 1.57 | 13.5 | 52.3 | 11.3 | |||
Details | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
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 History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) | Duncker, Max | Abbott, Evelyn | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
140000 (350) |
16.9 | 1.57 | 12.8 | 56.8 | 9.5 | ||
Details | Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 19000 |
14288 (35) |
17.6 | 1.57 | 12.3 | 56.2 | 9.8 | |
Details | The Chronicles of Clovis | Saki | 1870 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
52069 (130) |
20.8 | 1.57 | 13.7 | 52.5 | 11.1 | |
Details | The Voyage of the Beagle | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
210326 (525) |
21.0 | 1.57 | 13.8 | 52.6 | 11.1 | |
Details | In the Year 2889 | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 |
5492 (13) |
13.1 | 1.57 | 11.0 | 60.7 | 8.0 | |
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 Story of Versailles | Payne, Francis Loring | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
33903 (84) |
23.1 | 1.57 | 15.1 | 50.4 | 12.0 | |||
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 | Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
335852 (839) |
20.4 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 53.1 | 10.9 | |||
Details | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles | 1814 | 1889 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
273706 (684) |
23.0 | 1.57 | 15.0 | 50.7 | 11.9 | |
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 | The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races | Allen, Emory Adams | 1853 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
206643 (516) |
18.2 | 1.56 | 13.0 | 56.2 | 9.9 |
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.