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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 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 English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- Long, William J. (William Joseph) 1867 1952 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 204834
    (512)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.5 12.2
    Details Nationalism Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 7000 9000 10000 14000 26616
    (66)
    24.0 1.56 15.2 50.2 12.2
    Details Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in Br Vinycomb, John 4000 7000 12000 16000 19000 23000 52424
    (131)
    22.9 1.6 15.1 48.3 12.2
    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 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 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 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 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 A Short History of the World Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 111386
    (278)
    20.1 1.68 15.2 44.4 12.1
    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 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 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 Anarchism and Other Essays Goldman, Emma 1869 1940 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 16000 67167
    (167)
    21.2 1.64 15.1 46.2 12.1
    Details New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in Cotter, John L.Hudson, J. Paul 4000 6000 9000 12000 17000 23000 15759
    (39)
    19.1 1.71 15.1 42.4 12.1
    Details Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Bellamy, Edward 1850 1898 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 15000 77522
    (193)
    24.0 1.55 15.1 51.1 12.1
    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 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 Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) 1873 1936 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 22000 149754
    (374)
    21.1 1.64 14.9 46.6 12.0
    Details The Invention of Lithography Senefelder, Alois Muller, J. W. 3000 4000 7000 12000 13000 17000 87110
    (217)
    24.2 1.54 14.5 52.3 12.0
    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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz Wyllie, David 1883 1924 1000 2000 4000 5000 7000 12000 21986
    (54)
    28.3 1.39 14.3 60.4 11.9
    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 Surgical Anatomy Maclise, Joseph 5000 10000 16000 20000 22000 25000 106499
    (266)
    18.9 1.7 15.7 43.8 11.9
    Details The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 Cooper, James Fenimore 1789 1851 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 148091
    (370)
    24.8 1.51 14.8 54.0 11.9
    Details Merlin A Poem Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869 1935 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 21993
    (54)
    29.6 1.35 14.5 62.2 11.9
    Details Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script Talmage, James Edward 1862 1933 3000 6000 9000 12000 13000 18000 294595
    (736)
    23.6 1.55 15.2 51.9 11.9
    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 Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate Nevinson, John L. 3000 5000 11000 14000 18000 25000 9332
    (23)
    20.1 1.67 14.7 45.4 11.9
    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
    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 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 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 Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 3000 4000 6000 10000 12000 19000 45835
    (114)
    19.7 1.67 14.9 45.4 11.8
    Details Lady Susan Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 14000 22830
    (57)
    23.7 1.54 14.6 52.6 11.8
    Details Theaetetus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 65641
    (164)
    23.9 1.53 15.2 53.2 11.8
    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 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 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 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 The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study Martin, Everett Dean 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 70365
    (175)
    18.9 1.69 14.8 44.7 11.7
    Details Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut Anonymous 3000 5000 8000 12000 16000 22000 132745
    (331)
    17.9 1.72 15.0 42.8 11.7
    Details Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) Engel, Carl 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 71969
    (179)
    19.4 1.67 15.0 45.6 11.7

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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.