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    (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 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

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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.