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 | Phaedo | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 16000 |
42694 (106) |
26.6 | 1.46 | 15.2 | 56.0 | 12.1 |
| Details | Silas Marner | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
70159 (175) |
26.6 | 1.43 | 13.8 | 58.8 | 11.7 | |
| Details | Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience | Matthews, Ike | 1857 | 1913 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
14490 (36) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.8 | 11.0 | |
| 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 | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Richardson, Samuel | 1689 | 1761 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
221156 (552) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.2 | 63.7 | 11.0 | |
| Details | As a Man Thinketh | Allen, James | 1864 | 1912 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
7517 (18) |
26.6 | 1.56 | 16.3 | 47.6 | 13.2 | |
| 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 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 | Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 18000 |
23520 (58) |
26.4 | 1.69 | 18.2 | 37.1 | 14.6 |
| Details | The Economic Consequences of the Peace | Keynes, John Maynard | 1883 | 1946 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
67762 (169) |
26.4 | 1.67 | 17.9 | 38.9 | 14.4 | |
| Details | Civil Disobedience | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
9251 (23) |
26.4 | 1.5 | 15.2 | 53.5 | 12.3 | |
| Details | Anabasis | Xenophon | Dakyns, Henry Graham | 431BC (1838) | 350BC (1911) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
93859 (234) |
26.4 | 1.47 | 15.1 | 55.8 | 12.0 |
| 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 | 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 | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
187600 (469) |
26.2 | 1.32 | 12.9 | 68.5 | 10.2 | |
| Details | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
86554 (216) |
26.2 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | The Canterville Ghost | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
11587 (28) |
26.1 | 1.49 | 14.9 | 54.5 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec | Aristotle | 384BC | 322BC | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 | 23000 |
107312 (268) |
26.1 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.5 | 11.7 | |
| 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 Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and | Mackey, Albert Gallatin | 1807 | 1881 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70062 (175) |
26.1 | 1.65 | 17.7 | 40.8 | 14.1 | |
| Details | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 1265 (1807) | 1321 (1882) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 | 23000 |
38252 (95) |
26.1 | 1.4 | 13.6 | 62.1 | 11.1 |
| Details | The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series | Addison, Joseph | 1672 | 1719 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
929911 (2324) |
26.0 | 1.51 | 15.2 | 52.3 | 12.4 | |
| Details | The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights | Knowles, James, Sir | 1831 | 1908 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93384 (233) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.6 | 68.7 | 10.1 | |
| Details | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
168617 (421) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.7 | 69.0 | 10.1 | |
| Details | Warlord of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
56940 (142) |
26.0 | 1.45 | 13.9 | 57.5 | 11.7 | |
| Details | Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | Rowlandson, Mary White | 1635 | 1710 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 |
20128 (50) |
25.9 | 1.35 | 12.9 | 66.1 | 10.5 | |
| 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 | The Souls of Black Folk | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) | 1868 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
68801 (172) |
25.9 | 1.53 | 14.9 | 51.3 | 12.5 | |
| Details | Essays in Experimental Logic | Dewey, John | 1859 | 1952 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
107047 (267) |
25.9 | 1.71 | 18.1 | 36.3 | 14.6 | |
| 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 | Arabian nights. English | Anonymous | Burton, Richard Francis, Sir | (1821) | (1890) | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 | 22000 |
172497 (431) |
25.8 | 1.41 | 13.4 | 61.6 | 11.1 |
| Details | Emile | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
251868 (629) |
25.8 | 1.44 | 14.1 | 58.8 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners | Freud, Sigmund | Eder, M. D. (Montague David) | 1856 (1866) | 1939 (1936) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
53068 (132) |
25.7 | 1.64 | 17.2 | 42.3 | 13.7 |
| 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 | The Grand Inquisitor | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) | 1821 (1831) | 1881 (1891) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
9588 (23) |
25.6 | 1.46 | 14.5 | 57.7 | 11.6 |
| 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 | British Castles | Ashdown, Charles H. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
39601 (99) |
25.6 | 1.66 | 17.2 | 40.7 | 14.0 | |||
| Details | Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 | 18000 |
40617 (101) |
25.5 | 1.84 | 20.0 | 25.3 | 16.1 |
| Details | Political Ideals | Russell, Bertrand | 1872 | 1970 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 |
22188 (55) |
25.4 | 1.64 | 16.9 | 42.1 | 13.7 | |
| Details | How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] | Lehmann, Lilli | Aldrich, Richard | 1848 (1863) | 1929 (1937) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
31812 (79) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.2 | 50.7 | 12.5 |
| Details | Beast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations wit | Kipling, John Lockwood | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93292 (233) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.0 | 51.1 | 12.4 | |||
| Details | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | Aesop | Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
41387 (103) |
25.3 | 1.33 | 12.4 | 68.4 | 10.0 |
| Details | The Satyricon — Complete | Petronius Arbiter | 20 | 66 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
97604 (244) |
25.3 | 1.52 | 14.9 | 52.9 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Voltaire | Morley, John | 1838 | 1923 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
93857 (234) |
25.2 | 1.62 | 16.7 | 44.2 | 13.4 | |
| Details | Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
31960 (79) |
25.1 | 1.38 | 12.6 | 64.2 | 10.5 | |||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Walking | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
12032 (30) |
24.9 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 56.1 | 11.6 | |
| 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 | |
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.