This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 | 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 |
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.