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 | Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess | Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William) | 1856 | 1932 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
62978 (157) |
16.5 | 1.54 | 11.3 | 59.5 | 9.0 | |
| Details | Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas | Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) | 1859 | 1929 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
99800 (249) |
31.1 | 1.49 | 16.7 | 48.9 | 14.2 | |
| Details | Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of | Schlebecker, John T. | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
22455 (56) |
7.1 | 1.71 | 9.7 | 54.7 | 7.4 | |||
| Details | Shepp's Photographs of the World | Shepp, James W.Shepp, Daniel B. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
26227 (65) |
25.1 | 1.67 | 16.9 | 40.3 | 13.9 | |||
| 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 Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
114750 (286) |
30.5 | 1.44 | 16.2 | 53.8 | 13.3 | ||||
| Details | History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent | Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald) | 1873 | 1930 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 23000 |
113094 (282) |
27.4 | 1.61 | 17.3 | 43.2 | 14.0 | |
| Details | The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series | Addison, Joseph | 1672 | 1719 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
929911 (2324) |
26.0 | 1.51 | 15.2 | 52.3 | 12.4 | |
| 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 | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
86554 (216) |
26.2 | 1.45 | 14.5 | 57.4 | 11.8 | |||
| 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 | Voltaire | Morley, John | 1838 | 1923 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
93857 (234) |
25.2 | 1.62 | 16.7 | 44.2 | 13.4 | |
| Details | The American Horsewoman | Karr, Elizabeth | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
70753 (176) |
27.7 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.0 | 12.6 | |||
| Details | Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1772 | 1834 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
21413 (53) |
20.3 | 1.31 | 9.8 | 75.3 | 7.8 | |
| Details | The Chronicles of Clovis | Saki | 1870 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
52069 (130) |
20.8 | 1.57 | 13.7 | 52.5 | 11.1 | |
| 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 | 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 | The Burglars' Club A Romance in Twelve Chronicles | Hering, Henry A. | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
51301 (128) |
11.1 | 1.49 | 8.8 | 69.2 | 6.4 | |||
| Details | House of the Seven Gables | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
105173 (262) |
22.8 | 1.54 | 14.1 | 53.6 | 11.4 | |
| 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 | From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
90543 (226) |
15.8 | 1.59 | 12.5 | 56.4 | 9.3 | |
| Details | Ponce de Leon The Rise of the Argentine Republic | Pilling, William | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
209446 (523) |
22.0 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.8 | 10.5 | |||
| 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 Battle of Life A Love Story | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 12000 | 16000 |
29592 (73) |
14.7 | 1.45 | 9.4 | 69.5 | 7.2 | |
| 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 | |
| Details | Villette | Brontë, Charlotte | 1816 | 1855 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
189437 (473) |
18.2 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 61.8 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
184276 (460) |
22.1 | 1.62 | 15.5 | 47.0 | 12.2 | |
| Details | Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete | Pepys, Samuel | Bright, Mynors | 1633 (1818) | 1703 (1883) | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
1253859 (3134) |
30.4 | 1.36 | 14.6 | 61.3 | 12.3 |
| 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 | Crome Yellow | Huxley, Aldous | 1894 | 1963 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
56364 (140) |
13.6 | 1.53 | 10.2 | 63.1 | 7.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Bushido, the Soul of Japan | Nitobe, Inazo | 1862 | 1933 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
33042 (82) |
25.1 | 1.6 | 16.0 | 46.1 | 13.1 | |
| Details | Miss Primrose A Novel | Gilson, Roy Rolfe | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 20000 |
49888 (124) |
14.8 | 1.45 | 9.1 | 69.2 | 7.3 | |||
| Details | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles | 1814 | 1889 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
273706 (684) |
23.0 | 1.57 | 15.0 | 50.7 | 11.9 | |
| Details | Short-Stories | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 22000 |
73428 (183) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.6 | 61.2 | 9.0 | ||||
| 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 | Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 | 18000 |
40617 (101) |
25.5 | 1.84 | 20.0 | 25.3 | 16.1 |
| Details | The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution | Azuela, Mariano | Munguía, E. (Enrique) | 1873 (1903) | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
37140 (92) |
12.9 | 1.48 | 9.4 | 68.2 | 7.0 |
| Details | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48155 (120) |
31.1 | 1.71 | 20.6 | 30.5 | 16.7 | |
| Details | The Best American Humorous Short Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 21000 |
101352 (253) |
17.6 | 1.5 | 11.4 | 62.4 | 8.9 | ||||
| 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 | Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No | Sophocles | Murray, Gilbert | 495BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 | 23000 |
17732 (44) |
9.6 | 1.35 | 6.9 | 82.5 | 4.1 |
| Details | Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Zimmern, Helen | 1844 (1846) | 1900 (1934) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
61977 (154) |
32.8 | 1.65 | 19.9 | 33.7 | 16.7 |
| Details | The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
187931 (469) |
24.6 | 1.47 | 14.0 | 57.4 | 11.4 | |||
| Details | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
205539 (513) |
35.3 | 1.67 | 21.2 | 29.5 | 17.9 | |
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.