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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 Don Quixote Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Ormsby, John 1547 (1829) 1616 (1895) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 425471
    (1063)
    45.3 1.41 21.6 41.9 18.7
    Details The Iliad Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 152112
    (380)
    31.0 1.35 15.0 61.5 12.4
    Details The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 23000 58153
    (145)
    21.3 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.3
    Details The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)
    16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)
    21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    Details El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)
    19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Chopin, Kate 1850 1904 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 20000 63540
    (158)
    14.5 1.47 9.8 67.9 7.4
    Details Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)
    18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    Details Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 72871
    (182)
    22.0 1.53 13.8 54.7 11.1
    Details The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio 3000 4000 8000 12000 17000 22000 97942
    (244)
    20.5 1.5 13.2 58.7 10.2
    Details Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 183151
    (457)
    18.5 1.46 11.2 64.3 8.9
    Details Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)
    29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9
    Details Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily 1818 1848 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 114539
    (286)
    16.9 1.46 10.6 65.8 8.3
    Details A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story Harrison, Carter H. 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 66474
    (166)
    18.5 1.48 11.3 63.2 9.0
    Details Poor Folk in Spain Gordon, Cora 1879 1950 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 79151
    (197)
    17.0 1.49 11.1 63.4 8.6
    Details The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) 1873 1915 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 201803
    (504)
    19.5 1.56 13.2 54.7 10.5
    Details The Spell of Belgium Anderson, Isabel 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 21000 89821
    (224)
    21.1 1.53 13.4 56.3 10.6
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 91873
    (229)
    27.8 1.66 18.4 38.2 14.9
    Details The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Ormsby, John 1547 (1829) 1616 (1895) 3000 4000 8000 11000 13000 19000 215612
    (539)
    48.7 1.41 23.1 37.8 20.1
    Details Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf For the Use of Teachers Newell, Jane H. (Jane Hancox) 3000 5000 8000 12000 18000 24000 26005
    (65)
    15.1 1.49 10.4 65.2 7.9
    Details The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) (1816) (1878) 2000 4000 8000 12000 18000 23000 125987
    (314)
    9.6 1.43 7.7 76.1 5.0
    Details The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Burke, Edmund 1729 1797 3000 5000 8000 12000 17000 21000 161987
    (404)
    29.8 1.6 18.6 41.0 15.0
    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 Prufrock and Other Observations Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 3812
    (9)
    24.3 1.44 12.9 60.7 10.8
    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 Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 104617
    (261)
    11.9 1.54 9.6 64.9 7.2
    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 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx, Karl 1818 1883 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 39830
    (99)
    30.8 1.72 20.5 29.7 16.8
    Details The Royal Picture Alphabet Leighton, John 1822 1912 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 5109
    (12)
    17.3 1.49 11.1 63.1 8.7
    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 Innocents Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 190987
    (477)
    21.8 1.49 13.0 58.5 10.5
    Details The Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress Santayana, George 1863 1952 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 317310
    (793)
    29.2 1.72 19.8 31.8 16.1
    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 From sketch-book and diary Butler, Elizabeth 1846 1933 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 34038
    (85)
    23.5 1.51 13.6 55.4 11.4
    Details Sailing Alone Around the World Slocum, Joshua 1844 1910 2000 5000 8000 12000 13000 20000 69436
    (173)
    22.4 1.44 12.1 62.0 10.2
    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 Book of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo 1862 1913 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 17957
    (44)
    19.4 1.61 13.7 51.2 10.9
    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 South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir 1874 1922 2000 4000 8000 10000 14000 17000 144681
    (361)
    17.8 1.47 11.0 64.4 8.7
    Details Sketches New and Old Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 96722
    (241)
    21.2 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.3
    Details My Reminiscences Tagore, Rabindranath 1861 1941 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 22000 60224
    (150)
    20.0 1.51 12.6 58.7 10.1
    Details Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Bradford, William 1590 1657 2000 4000 8000 11000 16000 23000 169207
    (423)
    21.2 1.45 12.2 62.4 9.8
    Details Tales of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 85222
    (213)
    13.4 1.49 9.3 67.4 7.2
    Details The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Leblanc, Maurice 1864 1941 3000 4000 8000 12000 18000 18000 53672
    (134)
    12.4 1.53 9.9 65.1 7.2
    Details The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)
    30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details Essays — First Series Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 74343
    (185)
    20.7 1.49 13.0 60.1 10.0
    Details The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine 1870 1922 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 107279
    (268)
    16.5 1.47 10.2 66.1 8.1
    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 Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 12000 17000 17000 319979
    (799)
    15.6 1.46 10.0 67.8 7.7
    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

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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.