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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 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 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Fa Darwin, Charles 1809 1882 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 20000 154299
    (385)    		 30.7 1.67 19.2 34.8 16.0
    Details She Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 1925 3000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 129365
    (323)    		 27.4 1.47 15.1 54.7 12.4
    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 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 Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Budd Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) (1823) (1900) 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 16000 11680
    (29)    		 12.8 1.43 8.7 73.0 6.3
    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 Tale of Tom Kitten Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 3000 7000 10000 13000 13000 13000 754
    (1)    		 15.1 1.51 10.2 64.2 8.1
    Details Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thomas, Aquinas, Saint 1225 1274 3000 4000 6000 11000 13000 20000 486564
    (1216)    		 17.0 1.55 12.7 58.7 9.3
    Details Orthodoxy Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 8000 10000 15000 63665
    (159)    		 20.1 1.53 13.0 57.2 10.3
    Details The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanator Aeschylus Murray, Gilbert 525BC (1866) 456BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 20586
    (51)    		 13.1 1.4 8.4 75.1 6.1
    Details The Golden Asse Apuleius, Lucius 125 180 3000 6000 10000 15000 17000 23000 80574
    (201)    		 51.6 1.43 24.2 33.7 21.4
    Details Poetics. English Aristotle Bywater, Ingram 384BC (1840) 322BC (1914) 3000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 18459
    (46)    		 26.1 1.54 16.2 49.9 12.8
    Details The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition Duncan, A. W. 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 21000 31665
    (79)    		 14.3 1.66 12.8 51.5 9.6
    Details Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862 1931 3000 4000 7000 10000 11000 16000 9490
    (23)    		 22.0 1.56 13.9 52.8 11.4
    Details The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affectin Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James) 1881 1945 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 22000 42645
    (106)    		 9.4 1.6 9.7 62.1 6.9
    Details Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 Malory, Thomas, Sir 1400 1470 3000 5000 9000 13000 17000 23000 187600
    (469)    		 26.2 1.32 12.9 68.5 10.2
    Details A Book of Myths Lang, Jeanie 3000 5000 9000 11000 15000 24000 90896
    (227)    		 24.5 1.37 12.5 65.7 10.2
    Details Confessions of an English Opium-Eater De Quincey, Thomas 1785 1859 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 38035
    (95)    		 35.9 1.57 19.8 37.2 17.0
    Details Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Plutarch Stewart, Aubrey 46 (1844) 120 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 184023
    (460)    		 32.8 1.53 18.6 44.0 15.3
    Details The Essays of Francis Bacon Bacon, Francis 1561 1626 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 52994
    (132)    		 29.0 1.48 16.2 51.9 13.2
    Details Life Is a Dream Calderón de la Barca, Pedro FitzGerald, Edward 1600 (1809) 1681 (1883) 3000 5000 9000 13000 16000 19000 17220
    (43)    		 16.5 1.38 9.4 73.3 7.1
    Details An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 56587
    (141)    		 28.1 1.66 18.7 38.1 14.9
    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 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 Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 84994
    (212)    		 19.6 1.45 11.4 64.4 9.1
    Details Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 16000 37289
    (93)    		 15.6 1.47 10.0 67.0 7.8
    Details How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Lehmann, Lilli Aldrich, Richard 1848 (1863) 1929 (1937) 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 18000 31812
    (79)    		 25.4 1.54 15.2 50.7 12.5
    Details Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1769 1834 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 20000 484139
    (1210)    		 22.4 1.6 15.6 48.9 12.0
    Details Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller Schiller, Friedrich 1759 1805 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 145128
    (362)    		 32.5 1.6 19.5 38.3 16.0
    Details Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth Descartes, René 1596 1650 3000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 23024
    (57)    		 81.4 1.54 38.0 -5.7 34.3
    Details Ethica. English Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632 1677 3000 4000 6000 9000 13000 17000 87693
    (219)    		 16.0 1.56 12.4 59.1 9.0
    Details The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in Engels, Friedrich Kelley, Florence 1820 (1859) 1895 (1932) 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 114426
    (286)    		 27.4 1.62 17.1 42.3 14.2
    Details The Coming Race Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron 1803 1873 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 52320
    (130)    		 29.3 1.56 17.2 45.2 14.2
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 162979
    (407)    		 21.7 1.68 15.6 42.9 12.7
    Details Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenome Ellis, Havelock 1859 1939 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 133904
    (334)    		 23.8 1.71 17.1 38.2 13.8
    Details Île mystérieuse. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 192750
    (481)    		 17.8 1.5 11.8 62.0 9.0
    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 Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship Jack, George 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 40537
    (101)    		 22.7 1.56 14.4 51.9 11.7
    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 American Frugal Housewife Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 20000 44452
    (111)    		 18.4 1.42 10.5 68.1 8.3
    Details Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)    		 22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8
    Details An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce, Ambrose 1842 1914 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 16000 3713
    (9)    		 18.8 1.47 11.5 63.0 9.1
    Details The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen 1871 1900 3000 5000 8000 9000 12000 16000 45599
    (113)    		 12.7 1.46 9.0 70.6 6.6
    Details The Federalist Papers Hamilton, Alexander 1757 1804 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 191873
    (479)    		 31.9 1.69 20.8 31.4 16.8
    Details Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor Upham, Charles Wentworth 1802 1875 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 294773
    (736)    		 22.0 1.56 14.4 52.6 11.4
    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 A Course In Wood Turning ?-Milton, Archie Seldon 1887 3000 5000 9000 11000 11000 14000 13683
    (34)    		 16.0 1.43 9.9 69.3 7.6
    Details The Economic Consequences of the Peace Keynes, John Maynard 1883 1946 3000 3000 6000 9000 10000 16000 67762
    (169)    		 26.4 1.67 17.9 38.9 14.4

    Notes:

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    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.
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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.