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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 Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 123834
    (309)
    15.0 1.44 9.5 69.5 7.3
    Details The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale 2000 5000 5000 7000 11000 13000 1406
    (3)
    18.5 1.46 11.5 64.8 8.8
    Details The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir 1857 1934 3000 5000 8000 12000 15000 20000 98023
    (245)
    23.6 1.44 13.3 61.2 10.6
    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 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Sterne, Laurence 1713 1768 2000 5000 9000 13000 17000 22000 179035
    (447)
    43.2 1.45 21.0 40.2 18.4
    Details The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 134572
    (336)
    18.1 1.49 11.4 62.8 9.0
    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 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving, Washington 1783 1859 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 21000 12209
    (30)
    35.0 1.51 18.3 43.9 15.8
    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 The Last Man Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 1851 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 173882
    (434)
    25.1 1.53 15.1 52.3 12.2
    Details The Land That Time Forgot Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 22000 36905
    (92)
    20.0 1.44 11.3 64.7 9.2
    Details The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Garnett, Constance 1860 (1861) 1904 (1946) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 71033
    (177)
    17.1 1.45 10.7 66.6 8.2
    Details The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, Unknown 2000 4000 6000 11000 12000 15000 33352
    (83)
    8.1 1.35 5.5 84.2 3.5
    Details The Ladies Delight Anonymous 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 16000 4466
    (11)
    42.1 1.35 19.5 50.1 16.7
    Details The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy, Leo, graf Tucker, Benjamin R. 1828 1910 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 63962
    (159)
    17.1 1.47 11.0 65.1 8.4
    Details The Kingdom of God Is Within You Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 123231
    (308)
    31.0 1.56 18.3 43.6 14.9
    Details The King in Yellow Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 71137
    (177)
    15.5 1.46 9.6 68.0 7.6
    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 Jungle Book Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 25000 50599
    (126)
    15.9 1.33 8.1 78.1 6.3
    Details The Jungle Sinclair, Upton 1878 1968 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 147652
    (369)
    22.3 1.39 12.0 66.4 9.5
    Details The Island of Doctor Moreau Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 19000 43537
    (108)
    14.7 1.48 9.7 66.5 7.6
    Details The Iron Heel London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 87324
    (218)
    14.4 1.52 10.6 63.5 8.0
    Details The Invisible Man Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 47694
    (119)
    12.5 1.47 8.6 70.2 6.6
    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 Invention of Lithography Senefelder, Alois Muller, J. W. 3000 4000 7000 12000 13000 17000 87110
    (217)
    24.2 1.54 14.5 52.3 12.0
    Details The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The Equiano, Olaudah 1745 1797 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 81664
    (204)
    29.1 1.46 15.7 53.5 13.0
    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 Innocence of Father Brown Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 18000 78581
    (196)
    17.7 1.46 10.9 65.5 8.5
    Details The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) 1840 1914 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 16000 206172
    (515)
    29.9 1.59 18.0 41.9 14.8
    Details The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar 1854 1900 2000 3000 7000 9000 14000 21000 20449
    (51)
    7.8 1.55 8.4 68.1 5.7
    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 The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 24000 169570
    (423)
    21.2 1.46 12.7 61.8 9.9
    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 Iliad Homer Pope, Alexander 750BC (1688) 650BC (1744) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 23000 188352
    (470)
    23.1 1.42 12.7 63.4 10.2
    Details The Idiot Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Martin, Eva M. 1821 1881 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 14000 239039
    (597)
    14.9 1.47 10.4 67.1 7.6
    Details The Hunting of the Snark Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 3000 5000 9000 14000 15000 18000 4969
    (12)
    22.4 1.39 12.0 66.2 9.6
    Details The House on the Borderland Hodgson, William Hope 1877 1918 2000 4000 6000 9000 10000 15000 50522
    (126)
    17.3 1.47 10.4 65.1 8.5
    Details The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith 1862 1937 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 127415
    (318)
    21.9 1.49 13.1 58.4 10.5
    Details The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 58745
    (146)
    15.0 1.42 9.3 71.8 7.0
    Details The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 58816
    (147)
    15.1 1.42 9.3 71.7 7.0
    Details The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides Crawley, Richard 455BC (1840) 395BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 204634
    (511)
    39.8 1.57 22.0 33.4 18.5
    Details The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)
    17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    Details The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Livy Spillan, D. (Daniel) (1854) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 231205
    (578)
    32.4 1.58 19.4 40.1 15.7
    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 The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) Duncker, Max Abbott, Evelyn 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 22000 140000
    (350)
    16.9 1.57 12.8 56.8 9.5
    Details The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18000 10194
    (25)
    7.3 1.75 11.5 51.8 7.8
    Details The Hindu-Arabic Numerals Karpinski, Louis Charles 1878 1956 3000 6000 11000 15000 18000 23000 45182
    (112)
    11.6 1.69 11.9 51.6 8.9
    Details The Handbook of Soap Manufacture Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert)Appleton, H. A. 4000 9000 15000 17000 19000 24000 53752
    (134)
    9.8 1.76 12.2 48.1 9.0
    Details The Gun Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 11000 4834
    (12)
    7.6 1.4 5.9 80.6 3.9
    Details The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 48890
    (122)
    17.0 1.45 10.3 66.8 8.2

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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.