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 | Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
142729 (356) |
20.7 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 61.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
114891 (287) |
27.9 | 1.46 | 15.0 | 55.4 | 12.5 | |
| Details | Persuasion | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
82646 (206) |
22.7 | 1.49 | 13.7 | 57.7 | 10.9 | |
| Details | Bleak House | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
347904 (869) |
16.7 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 67.2 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Tales of Folk and Fairies | Pyle, Katharine | 1863 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
54127 (135) |
17.5 | 1.29 | 8.6 | 79.7 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
110968 (277) |
42.0 | 1.3 | 18.2 | 54.1 | 16.2 | |
| Details | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) | 1859 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
66360 (165) |
19.8 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.4 | 8.5 | |
| Details | 2 B R 0 2 B | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1922 | 2007 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
2501 (6) |
9.4 | 1.46 | 7.5 | 74.1 | 5.3 | |
| Details | The Sign of the Four | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42939 (107) |
14.7 | 1.42 | 9.0 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
120387 (300) |
49.5 | 1.38 | 22.5 | 39.8 | 20.0 | |
| 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 | The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
187931 (469) |
24.6 | 1.47 | 14.0 | 57.4 | 11.4 | |||
| Details | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | 1882 | 1941 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
84537 (211) |
15.8 | 1.41 | 9.3 | 71.2 | 7.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | My Man Jeeves | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 |
50312 (125) |
10.8 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 77.1 | 5.2 | |
| Details | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
205539 (513) |
35.3 | 1.67 | 21.2 | 29.5 | 17.9 | |
| Details | Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married | Armitage, R. B. | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
68583 (171) |
27.3 | 1.68 | 18.3 | 37.4 | 14.8 | |||
| 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 | Peter Pan | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
47245 (118) |
14.8 | 1.36 | 8.3 | 76.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Ulysses | Joyce, James | 1882 | 1941 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 23000 |
260586 (651) |
11.2 | 1.5 | 8.7 | 68.9 | 6.4 | |
| Details | Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 |
15145 (37) |
23.0 | 1.49 | 13.8 | 57.4 | 11.0 | |
| 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 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Christie, Agatha | 1890 | 1976 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
55542 (138) |
10.2 | 1.49 | 8.5 | 70.3 | 6.0 | |
| Details | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 23000 |
19258 (48) |
12.3 | 1.46 | 8.2 | 70.8 | 6.4 | |
| Details | A Study in Scarlet | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
43598 (108) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.2 | 67.2 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Sense and Sensibility | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
117920 (294) |
24.3 | 1.51 | 14.9 | 54.1 | 11.8 | |
| Details | Emma | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
155516 (388) |
20.8 | 1.47 | 12.4 | 61.1 | 9.9 | |
| Details | Mansfield Park | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
157622 (394) |
22.6 | 1.48 | 13.3 | 59.1 | 10.6 | |
| Details | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
79615 (199) |
13.2 | 1.35 | 7.4 | 79.0 | 5.5 | |
| Details | Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
147161 (367) |
18.3 | 1.45 | 11.1 | 65.7 | 8.6 | |
| Details | A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
134550 (336) |
17.3 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 67.2 | 8.2 | |
| Details | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
116398 (290) |
20.0 | 1.42 | 11.2 | 66.5 | 9.0 | |
| 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 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 17000 |
39505 (98) |
17.4 | 1.33 | 9.3 | 76.3 | 6.9 | |
| Details | A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
28431 (71) |
14.6 | 1.39 | 8.6 | 74.4 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
101388 (253) |
14.7 | 1.43 | 9.3 | 71.1 | 7.0 | |
| 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 | Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 24000 |
28873 (72) |
14.1 | 1.36 | 7.7 | 77.5 | 6.0 | |
| Details | Around the World in 80 Days | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
62632 (156) |
17.0 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 60.3 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
82835 (207) |
23.3 | 1.53 | 14.2 | 54.0 | 11.5 | |
| 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 | The Waste Land | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 | 22000 |
4490 (11) |
12.0 | 1.51 | 8.9 | 66.6 | 7.0 | |
| Details | Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, | Cleland, John | 1709 | 1789 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84355 (210) |
57.8 | 1.49 | 27.7 | 22.4 | 24.5 | |
| Details | Leaves of Grass | Whitman, Walt | 1819 | 1892 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
120543 (301) |
33.2 | 1.46 | 16.8 | 49.9 | 14.6 | |
| Details | The Communist Manifesto | Engels, Friedrich | 1820 | 1895 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
11413 (28) |
24.1 | 1.81 | 19.1 | 29.5 | 15.1 | |
| Details | The Call of the Wild | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 23000 |
31797 (79) |
18.7 | 1.39 | 10.4 | 69.9 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Dubliners | Joyce, James | 1882 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
66695 (166) |
14.3 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 71.7 | 6.8 | |
| Details | Pride and Prejudice | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
119679 (299) |
19.8 | 1.52 | 13.0 | 58.1 | 10.1 | |
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.