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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 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 The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868 1963 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 68801
    (172)
    25.9 1.53 14.9 51.3 12.5
    Details 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Grose, Francis 1731 1791 5000 8000 13000 15000 19000 24000 80819
    (202)
    7.1 1.53 6.6 70.3 5.2
    Details John Deere's Steel Plow Kendall, Edward C. 3000 5000 7000 8000 10000 15000 5509
    (13)
    17.7 1.53 12.1 59.4 9.4
    Details The Mysteries of Udolpho Radcliffe, Ann Ward 1764 1823 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 289394
    (723)
    27.3 1.53 16.5 49.8 13.1
    Details The Eyes Have It Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 2000 4000 5000 8000 9000 12000 1120
    (2)
    9.8 1.53 8.5 67.8 6.2
    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 Love and Freindship [sic] Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 32937
    (82)
    26.6 1.53 16.0 50.0 12.9
    Details Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and prep Rose, Joshua 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 63754
    (159)
    17.0 1.53 11.8 60.1 9.1
    Details Modern Essays Beerbohm, Max, Sir 1872 1956 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 83522
    (208)
    20.8 1.53 13.1 56.3 10.6
    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 Art of War Sunzi Giles, Lionel (1875) (1958) 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 22000 52452
    (131)
    18.1 1.52 12.6 59.5 9.5
    Details The Social Cancer Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 173896
    (434)
    17.9 1.52 12.1 60.3 9.3
    Details The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Montaigne, Michel de Cotton, Charles 1533 (1630) 1592 (1687) 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 524667
    (1311)
    38.4 1.52 20.3 39.6 17.3
    Details Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 8000 11000 16000 119679
    (299)
    19.8 1.52 13.0 58.1 10.1
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)
    21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    Details Omnilingual Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 16172
    (40)
    14.5 1.52 10.4 63.4 8.0
    Details Turner Monkhouse, William Cosmo 1840 1901 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 18000 39762
    (99)
    26.3 1.52 15.5 51.2 12.7
    Details The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Cole, Fay-Cooper 1881 1961 3000 4000 6000 9000 11000 18000 96647
    (241)
    18.5 1.52 12.1 59.4 9.6
    Details Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover Anonymous 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 32078
    (80)
    36.5 1.52 19.6 41.2 16.6
    Details Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 14000 120454
    (301)
    22.9 1.52 14.4 55.1 11.3
    Details Smoke Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Garnett, Constance 1818 (1861) 1883 (1946) 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 64820
    (162)
    18.1 1.52 12.2 60.0 9.4
    Details Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G Boswell, James 1740 1795 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 214740
    (536)
    20.2 1.52 12.9 57.9 10.2
    Details Nature Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803 1882 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 17000 15310
    (38)
    19.0 1.52 12.8 58.8 9.8
    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 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 This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 16000 79512
    (198)
    14.9 1.52 10.8 63.0 8.2
    Details The Satyricon — Complete Petronius Arbiter 20 66 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 97604
    (244)
    25.3 1.52 14.9 52.9 12.2
    Details In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Erasmus, Desiderius 1469 1536 4000 6000 10000 12000 15000 22000 44403
    (111)
    48.2 1.52 24.3 29.4 21.1
    Details Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Conrad, Joseph 1857 1924 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 169054
    (422)
    17.2 1.52 11.8 60.6 9.1
    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 Textiles and Clothing Watson, Kate Heintz 4000 5000 10000 12000 15000 23000 41633
    (104)
    17.9 1.52 11.6 59.8 9.4
    Details A Short History of H.M.S. Victory Wharton, William James Lloyd 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 15824
    (39)
    28.9 1.52 16.8 49.3 13.6
    Details Daisy Miller James, Henry 1843 1916 2000 4000 8000 9000 11000 19000 21009
    (52)
    12.8 1.52 10.0 65.3 7.3
    Details The New Woman An Original Comedy, In Four Acts Grundy, Sydney 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 17860
    (44)
    4.8 1.52 6.8 73.6 4.2
    Details The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Cody, Sherwin 1868 1959 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 59114
    (147)
    18.7 1.52 12.4 59.0 9.7
    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 Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 10000 15000 18000 24000 102277
    (255)
    15.2 1.52 10.9 62.5 8.3
    Details Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1775 1817 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 117920
    (294)
    24.3 1.51 14.9 54.1 11.8
    Details The Waste Land Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888 1965 4000 6000 11000 14000 17000 22000 4490
    (11)
    12.0 1.51 8.9 66.6 7.0
    Details Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 103706
    (259)
    36.5 1.51 19.2 42.3 16.4
    Details Second Treatise of Government Locke, John 1632 1704 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 56126
    (140)
    33.0 1.51 18.6 45.7 15.1
    Details Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas 1588 1679 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 19000 211956
    (529)
    34.2 1.51 19.0 44.3 15.6
    Details Palmistry for All Cheiro 1866 1936 2000 3000 6000 7000 10000 21000 41356
    (103)
    28.5 1.51 16.3 50.3 13.3
    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 A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Casas, Bartolomé de las 1474 1566 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 30124
    (75)
    53.7 1.51 26.5 24.5 23.2
    Details The Cask of Amontillado Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 6000 11000 17000 19000 19000 2302
    (5)
    10.0 1.51 8.4 68.9 6.1
    Details The Personality of American Cities Hungerford, Edward 1875 1948 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 105425
    (263)
    21.1 1.51 12.8 57.8 10.4
    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

    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.