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 | Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend | Aesop | Townsend, George Fyler | 620BC (1814) | 563BC (1900) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
40748 (101) |
22.2 | 1.43 | 12.6 | 63.5 | 9.9 |
| Details | Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
28603 (71) |
17.3 | 1.38 | 9.0 | 72.8 | 7.4 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 Voyage of the Beagle | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
210326 (525) |
21.0 | 1.57 | 13.8 | 52.6 | 11.1 | |
| Details | Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
100810 (252) |
18.0 | 1.48 | 11.5 | 63.6 | 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 | Medea of Euripides | Euripides | Murray, Gilbert | 480BC (1866) | 406BC (1957) | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
19773 (49) |
12.0 | 1.36 | 7.3 | 79.8 | 5.1 |
| 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 | The Cid | Corneille, Pierre | Mongan, Roscoe | 1606 | 1684 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
18903 (47) |
12.1 | 1.46 | 8.8 | 70.7 | 6.4 |
| Details | Human Animals | Hamel, Frank | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
97180 (242) |
23.3 | 1.51 | 14.0 | 55.5 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | L'avare. English | Molière | Wall, Charles Heron | 1622 | 1673 | 2000 | 3000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
22064 (55) |
8.8 | 1.37 | 6.2 | 82.1 | 4.0 |
| Details | The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United | Wells-Barnett, Ida B. | 1862 | 1931 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 |
33314 (83) |
20.7 | 1.54 | 13.4 | 55.5 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 23000 |
47634 (119) |
16.0 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 68.4 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making | Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) | 1850 | 1896 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
102413 (256) |
19.1 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 62.6 | 9.3 | |
| 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 | 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 | On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Carlyle, Thomas | 1795 | 1881 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
87919 (219) |
22.6 | 1.49 | 13.4 | 58.1 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | The Civil War in America Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861 | Russell, William Howard, Sir | 1820 | 1907 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
80322 (200) |
29.0 | 1.55 | 17.0 | 46.6 | 14.0 | |
| Details | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome | 121 | 180 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
71538 (178) |
21.0 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 60.9 | 10.0 | |
| Details | The Beautiful and Damned | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) | 1896 | 1940 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
121625 (304) |
14.9 | 1.54 | 11.1 | 61.3 | 8.4 | |
| Details | The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84282 (210) |
22.3 | 1.46 | 12.9 | 60.3 | 10.4 | ||||
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | All About Coffee | Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) | 1873 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
387030 (967) |
13.8 | 1.67 | 11.8 | 51.5 | 9.5 | |
| 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 | Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 1875 | 1950 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 24000 |
46927 (117) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.3 | 67.0 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33286 (83) |
24.8 | 1.57 | 15.5 | 48.5 | 12.7 | |
| 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 Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
35371 (88) |
24.1 | 1.35 | 12.3 | 68.0 | 9.8 | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 Oxford Book of American Essays | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
161947 (404) |
24.8 | 1.55 | 15.1 | 50.8 | 12.3 | ||||
| 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 | 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 | Architecture Gothic and Renaissance | Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) | 1830 | 1903 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
54623 (136) |
17.7 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.1 | 11.0 | |
| 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 | |
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.