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 | 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 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 | Allan Quatermain | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) | 1856 | 1925 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
105546 (263) |
24.1 | 1.43 | 13.0 | 61.5 | 10.7 | |
Details | The Book of Household Management | Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) | 1836 | 1865 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
488058 (1220) |
15.8 | 1.5 | 10.5 | 63.9 | 8.3 | |
Details | Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying O | Zerbe, James Slough | 1850 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
37590 (93) |
11.4 | 1.51 | 9.2 | 67.5 | 6.7 | ||
Details | Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Var | Sanborn, Alvan Francis | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
114300 (285) |
24.2 | 1.64 | 16.2 | 43.1 | 13.3 | |||
Details | Beast and Man in India A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations wit | Kipling, John Lockwood | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93292 (233) |
25.4 | 1.54 | 15.0 | 51.1 | 12.4 | |||
Details | The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a | Trusler, John | 1735 | 1820 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
41272 (103) |
26.5 | 1.58 | 16.4 | 46.4 | 13.4 | |
Details | Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 | Winslow, Anna Green | 1759 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27973 (69) |
17.1 | 1.48 | 10.7 | 64.2 | 8.6 | |
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 | Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Dir | Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) | 1871 | 1954 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 14000 | 17000 | 21000 |
10808 (27) |
16.3 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 67.1 | 7.9 | |
Details | The Four Million | Henry, O. | 1862 | 1910 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
51419 (128) |
14.7 | 1.47 | 9.6 | 67.7 | 7.5 | |
Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
98568 (246) |
25.9 | 1.55 | 15.6 | 49.8 | 12.7 | |
Details | The Voyage of the Beagle | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
210326 (525) |
21.0 | 1.57 | 13.8 | 52.6 | 11.1 | |
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 | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
79765 (199) |
13.2 | 1.35 | 7.4 | 78.9 | 5.5 | |
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 Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph | Belloc, Hilaire | 1864 (1870) | 1938 (1953) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
25763 (64) |
23.0 | 1.28 | 10.7 | 75.3 | 8.5 |
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 Vampyre; a Tale | Polidori, John William | 1795 | 1821 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
12586 (31) |
34.3 | 1.52 | 18.9 | 43.3 | 15.7 | |
Details | The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights | Knowles, James, Sir | 1831 | 1908 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
93384 (233) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.6 | 68.7 | 10.1 | |
Details | Sport Royal and other stories | Hope, Anthony | 1863 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 21000 |
27491 (68) |
10.4 | 1.48 | 8.3 | 70.8 | 6.0 | |
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 | |
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 | 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 | Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
17989 (44) |
44.3 | 1.51 | 22.9 | 34.0 | 19.5 | |
Details | Handwork in Wood | Noyes, William | 1862 | 1928 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 21000 |
58844 (147) |
9.0 | 1.48 | 7.3 | 72.5 | 5.4 | |
Details | Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete | Young, Filson | 1876 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
161166 (402) |
35.3 | 1.5 | 19.2 | 44.2 | 15.9 | |
Details | Vanity Fair | Thackeray, William Makepeace | 1811 | 1863 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
298755 (746) |
22.3 | 1.48 | 13.0 | 59.0 | 10.6 | |
Details | A Sailor of King George | Hoffman, Frederick, Captain | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
89006 (222) |
19.3 | 1.48 | 11.9 | 62.0 | 9.4 | |||
Details | Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
335852 (839) |
20.4 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 53.1 | 10.9 | |||
Details | The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
9530 (23) |
19.3 | 1.62 | 13.7 | 50.2 | 11.1 | |||
Details | Babbitt | Lewis, Sinclair | 1885 | 1951 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 16000 | 21000 | 21000 |
120915 (302) |
15.4 | 1.49 | 10.0 | 65.0 | 8.0 | |
Details | The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philoso | Mackey, Albert Gallatin | 1807 | 1881 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
100385 (250) |
23.8 | 1.65 | 16.8 | 43.3 | 13.1 | |
Details | Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book after | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 14000 | 21000 |
15023 (37) |
18.5 | 1.37 | 9.7 | 71.8 | 7.8 | |
Details | Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 188 | Burroughs, Barkham | 1952 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 21000 |
147356 (368) |
19.3 | 1.51 | 12.1 | 59.8 | 9.7 | ||
Details | Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
114891 (287) |
27.9 | 1.46 | 15.0 | 55.4 | 12.5 | |
Details | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
110968 (277) |
42.0 | 1.3 | 18.2 | 54.1 | 16.2 | |
Details | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | 1882 | 1941 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
84537 (211) |
15.8 | 1.41 | 9.3 | 71.2 | 7.2 | |
Details | Madame Bovary | Flaubert, Gustave | Aveling, Eleanor Marx | 1821 (1855) | 1880 (1898) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
115415 (288) |
16.6 | 1.45 | 10.4 | 66.9 | 8.1 |
Details | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
116398 (290) |
20.0 | 1.42 | 11.2 | 66.5 | 9.0 | |
Details | Around the World in 80 Days | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
62632 (156) |
17.0 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 60.3 | 9.1 | |
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 | Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. | Fairham, William | 3000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 13000 | 20000 |
35294 (88) |
14.4 | 1.49 | 9.9 | 66.1 | 7.6 | |||
Details | Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) | -Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse) | 1876 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 | 20000 |
27844 (69) |
15.4 | 1.53 | 10.8 | 61.4 | 8.5 | ||
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 | 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 | Siddhartha | Hesse, Hermann | 1877 | 1962 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 | 20000 |
39112 (97) |
21.2 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 63.5 | 9.7 | |
Details | The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 |
790029 (1975) |
26.6 | 1.35 | 13.2 | 66.1 | 10.6 | ||||
Details | Steam, Its Generation and Use | Babcock & Wilcox Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 20000 |
120558 (301) |
9.8 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 56.0 | 7.9 |
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.