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 | 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 | Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples | Brown, Frank Chouteau | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
20014 (50) |
10.1 | 1.75 | 11.9 | 48.1 | 9.1 | |||
| 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 | From Gretna Green to Land's End A Literary Journey in England. | Bates, Katharine Lee | 1859 | 1929 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
71781 (179) |
28.9 | 1.52 | 15.8 | 49.2 | 13.6 | |
| 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 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 | 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 | 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 | The Skull | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 14000 | 14000 | 14000 |
7747 (19) |
7.0 | 1.39 | 5.4 | 81.9 | 3.6 | |
| 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 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 | Captain Blood | Sabatini, Rafael | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
112331 (280) |
14.5 | 1.48 | 10.2 | 66.7 | 7.6 | |
| Details | The Robbers | Schiller, Friedrich | 1759 | 1805 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
49365 (123) |
9.5 | 1.43 | 7.0 | 76.3 | 5.0 | |
| Details | Mertvye dushi. English | Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich | Hogarth, D. J. | 1809 | 1852 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
140991 (352) |
20.0 | 1.52 | 12.8 | 58.0 | 10.1 |
| Details | Main Street | Lewis, Sinclair | 1885 | 1951 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
164004 (410) |
14.1 | 1.48 | 9.4 | 67.4 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete | Dickinson, Emily | 1830 | 1886 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30572 (76) |
13.2 | 1.44 | 8.9 | 71.7 | 6.6 | |
| Details | The Golden Goose Book | Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) | 1862 | 1940 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 14000 | 14000 |
5262 (13) |
21.4 | 1.29 | 10.3 | 76.2 | 7.9 | |
| Details | Nonsense Books | Lear, Edward | 1812 | 1888 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 19000 |
28733 (71) |
18.8 | 1.47 | 11.3 | 63.2 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) | 480 (1862) | 525 (1931) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
42189 (105) |
19.5 | 1.47 | 12.3 | 62.6 | 9.4 |
| Details | Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers | Hughes, Talbot | 1869 | 1942 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
30554 (76) |
12.8 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 63.9 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Wisdom of Father Brown | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
71271 (178) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 11.4 | 63.2 | 9.2 | |
| Details | The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under | Bunyan, John | 1628 | 1688 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
56792 (141) |
19.1 | 1.33 | 10.0 | 75.3 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side | Pickthall, Marmaduke William | (1875) | (1936) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
491525 (1228) |
16.4 | 1.38 | 9.5 | 73.6 | 7.1 | |
| 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 Defenders | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 14000 |
8545 (21) |
8.9 | 1.44 | 6.9 | 76.2 | 4.9 | |
| 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 | The Invention of the Sewing Machine | Cooper, Grace Rogers | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
44774 (111) |
10.5 | 1.71 | 10.8 | 51.1 | 8.8 | |||
| 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 | Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | 1866 | 1945 | 4000 | 7000 | 13000 | 13000 | 14000 | 24000 |
27302 (68) |
14.2 | 1.66 | 11.4 | 52.4 | 9.5 | |
| 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 | 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 Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 | Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) | 1842 | 1930 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 18000 |
6761 (16) |
12.9 | 1.39 | 7.6 | 75.9 | 5.9 | |
| Details | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1730 | 1774 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
22563 (56) |
8.3 | 1.42 | 6.0 | 78.2 | 4.4 | |
| Details | Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
91306 (228) |
21.0 | 1.53 | 13.6 | 55.9 | 10.7 | |
| Details | On the Sublime | Longinus, 1st cent. | Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) | (1913) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
28948 (72) |
17.0 | 1.6 | 13.0 | 54.3 | 9.9 | |
| 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 | Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. I of II) | Bucke, Charles | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
144564 (361) |
24.0 | 1.58 | 15.7 | 48.5 | 12.5 | |||
| Details | The Art of Modern Lace Making | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
17344 (43) |
16.0 | 1.55 | 11.2 | 59.5 | 8.9 | ||||
| Details | The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems | Pope, Alexander | 1688 | 1744 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
54188 (135) |
19.7 | 1.47 | 12.1 | 62.2 | 9.5 | |
| Details | Shakspere & Typography | Blades, William | 1824 | 1890 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
6763 (16) |
19.3 | 1.59 | 13.4 | 53.1 | 10.6 | |
| Details | Man and Superman | Shaw, Bernard | 1856 | 1950 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 14000 | 14000 | 18000 |
68390 (170) |
12.1 | 1.51 | 9.4 | 66.6 | 7.0 | |
| 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 | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Molière | Jones, Philip Dwight | 1622 | 1673 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 |
18257 (45) |
11.3 | 1.49 | 8.4 | 69.7 | 6.3 |
| Details | The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 22000 |
58756 (146) |
19.8 | 1.5 | 12.5 | 59.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Phèdre. English | Racine, Jean | Boswell, Robert Bruce | 1639 | 1699 | 4000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 18000 |
13981 (34) |
14.1 | 1.4 | 8.5 | 74.3 | 6.4 |
| Details | Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
146705 (366) |
15.3 | 1.43 | 9.6 | 70.6 | 7.2 | ||||
| Details | The Ladies Delight | Anonymous | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 16000 |
4466 (11) |
42.1 | 1.35 | 19.5 | 50.1 | 16.7 | |||
| Details | Symbolic Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 17000 |
46466 (116) |
8.4 | 1.53 | 8.2 | 68.5 | 5.8 | |
| Details | Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 | Cole, E. W. (Edward William) | 1832 | 1918 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
141555 (353) |
20.6 | 1.38 | 10.6 | 68.8 | 8.8 | |
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.