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 | A Watcher in The Woods | Sharp, Dallas Lore | 1870 | 1929 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
30932 (77) |
20.5 | 1.42 | 10.9 | 65.8 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
12261 (30) |
19.3 | 1.3 | 9.7 | 77.1 | 7.3 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Hesiod | Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) | (1924) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
87152 (217) |
19.4 | 1.47 | 11.8 | 62.6 | 9.3 | |
| 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 Declaration of Independence of The United States of America | United States | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
1478 (3) |
39.9 | 1.71 | 24.3 | 21.5 | 20.2 | |||
| Details | Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works | Kalidasa | Ryder, Arthur W. (Arthur William) | (1877) | (1938) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
61590 (153) |
14.2 | 1.49 | 9.7 | 66.8 | 7.5 |
| Details | An Elementary Study of Insects | Haseman, Leonard | 1884 | 1969 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
17942 (44) |
17.6 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.5 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Architecture Classic and Early Christian | Slater, John | 1847 | 1924 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
54084 (135) |
18.1 | 1.66 | 14.3 | 48.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The 2010 CIA World Factbook | United States. Central Intelligence Agency | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
1297237 (3243) |
13.8 | 2.0 | 16.9 | 23.4 | 13.4 | |||
| Details | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
35903 (89) |
29.4 | 1.66 | 19.0 | 36.4 | 15.5 | |
| Details | Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture | George, Walter S.Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) | 1870 | 4000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 20000 |
99523 (248) |
12.9 | 1.65 | 12.0 | 54.1 | 8.9 | ||
| 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 | Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 | Malory, Thomas, Sir | 1400 | 1470 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
168617 (421) |
26.0 | 1.32 | 12.7 | 69.0 | 10.1 | |
| 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 | Theresa Raquin | Zola, Émile | Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred | 1840 (1853) | 1902 (1922) | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
70860 (177) |
17.4 | 1.49 | 11.4 | 62.8 | 8.8 |
| Details | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7 Kelly, Edward to Kite | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
169040 (422) |
16.7 | 1.66 | 13.4 | 49.8 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The War in the Air | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
96478 (241) |
16.1 | 1.51 | 10.9 | 62.4 | 8.5 | |
| Details | Oliver Twist | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 12000 | 17000 |
156033 (390) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 66.5 | 8.2 | |
| 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 | Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
142729 (356) |
20.7 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 61.4 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | Bleak House | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
347904 (869) |
16.7 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 67.2 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Tales of Folk and Fairies | Pyle, Katharine | 1863 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
54127 (135) |
17.5 | 1.29 | 8.6 | 79.7 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) | 1859 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
66360 (165) |
19.8 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.4 | 8.5 | |
| Details | The Sign of the Four | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42939 (107) |
14.7 | 1.42 | 9.0 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| Details | How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five H | Benedict, Ralph Paine | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 12000 | 21000 |
59865 (149) |
19.9 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 54.1 | 10.7 | |||
| 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 | Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners | Freud, Sigmund | Eder, M. D. (Montague David) | 1856 (1866) | 1939 (1936) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
53068 (132) |
25.7 | 1.64 | 17.2 | 42.3 | 13.7 |
| Details | War and Peace | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Maude, Aylmer | 1828 (1858) | 1910 (1938) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
560687 (1401) |
17.9 | 1.49 | 11.9 | 62.4 | 9.0 |
| Details | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | 1811 | 1896 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
180196 (450) |
17.2 | 1.42 | 10.1 | 69.0 | 7.9 | |
| 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 | |
| Details | Private Sex Advice to Women For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married | Armitage, R. B. | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
68583 (171) |
27.3 | 1.68 | 18.3 | 37.4 | 14.8 | |||
| Details | Peter Pan | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
47245 (118) |
14.8 | 1.36 | 8.3 | 76.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty a | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 7000 | 11000 | 15000 |
15145 (37) |
23.0 | 1.49 | 13.8 | 57.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
128461 (321) |
28.9 | 1.35 | 14.4 | 63.1 | 11.6 |
| Details | A Study in Scarlet | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
43598 (108) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.2 | 67.2 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman | Hardy, Thomas | 1840 | 1928 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
147161 (367) |
18.3 | 1.45 | 11.1 | 65.7 | 8.6 | |
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.