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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 The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 24000 54516
    (136)
    12.9 1.43 8.6 72.6 6.3
    Details The Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 290649
    (726)
    17.4 1.51 11.3 61.7 9.0
    Details The Piazza Tales Melville, Herman 1819 1891 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 78731
    (196)
    23.0 1.55 14.2 52.4 11.7
    Details The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 303152
    (757)
    22.2 1.7 16.6 40.5 13.1
    Details The Phantom of the Opera Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 20000 84224
    (210)
    14.8 1.44 9.6 69.6 7.2
    Details The Personality of American Cities Hungerford, Edward 1875 1948 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 105425
    (263)
    21.1 1.51 12.8 57.8 10.4
    Details The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi Pierce, Ray Vaughn 1840 1914 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 21000 381700
    (954)
    16.9 1.71 14.4 45.3 11.1
    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 The Oxford Book of American Essays 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 161947
    (404)
    24.8 1.55 15.1 50.8 12.3
    Details The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) 1861 1933 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 104277
    (260)
    20.9 1.61 14.4 49.3 11.6
    Details The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1 Garis, Cleo 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 50450
    (126)
    11.0 1.43 7.5 75.1 5.5
    Details The Old Road Belloc, Hilaire 1870 1953 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 17000 54235
    (135)
    27.0 1.48 15.1 54.2 12.4
    Details The Old Man of the Mountain Strang, Herbert 3000 5000 8000 10000 14000 20000 58447
    (146)
    15.1 1.47 10.3 67.3 7.6
    Details The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 213290
    (533)
    20.8 1.43 12.0 64.6 9.4
    Details The Odyssey of Homer Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 11000 13000 16000 23000 116500
    (291)
    22.1 1.43 12.4 63.1 10.0
    Details The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 128461
    (321)
    28.9 1.35 14.4 63.1 11.6
    Details The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Nuttall, P. Austin 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 758344
    (1895)
    30.7 1.69 19.4 32.9 16.3
    Details The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Younges Various 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 18000 8003
    (20)
    13.2 1.4 7.9 74.8 6.1
    Details The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Wilson, Woodrow 1856 1924 2000 3000 5000 6000 8000 14000 54535
    (136)
    27.1 1.54 16.5 48.8 13.2
    Details The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught Nott, Charles C. 1827 1916 3000 4000 8000 9000 10000 17000 59403
    (148)
    24.7 1.63 17.1 43.9 13.3
    Details The Mystery of Jockey Hollow Arden Blake Mystery Series #2 Garis, Cleo 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 45337
    (113)
    11.1 1.41 7.5 75.9 5.4
    Details The Mystery of Edwin Drood Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 93989
    (234)
    16.5 1.48 10.6 65.0 8.3
    Details The Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 41011
    (102)
    19.2 1.39 10.6 69.8 8.3
    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 Mysteries of Udolpho Radcliffe, Ann Ward 1764 1823 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 289394
    (723)
    27.3 1.53 16.5 49.8 13.1
    Details The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred Morgan, William 1774 1826 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 112150
    (280)
    13.8 1.51 10.3 65.4 7.6
    Details The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put Riley, Harvey 2000 4000 6000 8000 12000 19000 28496
    (71)
    21.3 1.43 12.1 64.4 9.6
    Details The Morning Glory Club Kyle, George A. 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 47254
    (118)
    13.3 1.47 9.2 68.8 7.0
    Details The Moonstone Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 19000 191496
    (478)
    15.9 1.47 10.4 66.8 7.9
    Details The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) 1863 1943 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 3926
    (9)
    12.7 1.4 8.0 75.4 5.9
    Details The Monk; a romance Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) 1775 1818 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 136838
    (342)
    17.3 1.55 12.7 58.1 9.5
    Details The Minute Man of the Frontier Puddefoot, W. G. 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 54821
    (137)
    19.3 1.43 10.7 66.1 8.8
    Details The Mill on the Floss Eliot, George 1819 1880 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 204609
    (511)
    22.6 1.44 12.4 62.3 10.2
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 137832
    (344)
    21.9 1.49 13.5 58.2 10.6
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 6000 10000 13000 18000 25000 123549
    (308)
    20.1 1.5 12.7 59.9 9.9
    Details The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 111009
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written b Díaz del Castillo, Bernal Lockhart, John Ingram 1492 1585 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 19000 183124
    (457)
    29.7 1.55 17.7 45.8 14.2
    Details The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 87120
    (217)
    15.7 1.43 9.7 69.9 7.4
    Details The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affectin Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James) 1881 1945 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 22000 42645
    (106)
    9.4 1.6 9.7 62.1 6.9
    Details The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy, Thomas 1840 1928 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 114027
    (285)
    17.3 1.47 10.8 65.1 8.5
    Details The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Ames, Azel 1845 1908 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 90669
    (226)
    21.5 1.56 13.7 53.4 11.1
    Details The Masque of the Red Death Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 4000 7000 10000 13000 14000 18000 2384
    (5)
    23.6 1.48 14.1 57.9 11.1
    Details The Marvelous Land of Oz Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 42055
    (105)
    15.4 1.46 10.1 67.7 7.6
    Details The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 21000 70421
    (176)
    12.3 1.41 7.9 75.2 5.8
    Details The Man in the Iron Mask Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 3000 4000 9000 10000 14000 24000 171959
    (429)
    13.8 1.49 10.2 66.8 7.4
    Details The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 57869
    (144)
    16.2 1.46 10.3 67.1 7.9
    Details The Madman Gibran, Khalil 1883 1931 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 7034
    (17)
    17.5 1.36 9.1 74.3 7.2
    Details The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes Henry VIII, King of England 1491 1547 2000 3000 7000 12000 13000 17000 5585
    (13)
    22.3 1.42 12.3 64.4 9.8
    Details The Lost World Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 75381
    (188)
    17.0 1.47 10.9 65.2 8.4

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    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.
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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.