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 | The Invention of Lithography | Senefelder, Alois | Muller, J. W. | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 13000 | 17000 |
87110 (217) |
24.2 | 1.54 | 14.5 | 52.3 | 12.0 | ||
| Details | Amerigo Vespucci | Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) | 1849 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
55391 (138) |
29.6 | 1.56 | 17.8 | 45.1 | 14.3 | |
| Details | A Short History of the World | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
111386 (278) |
20.1 | 1.68 | 15.2 | 44.4 | 12.1 | |
| Details | The Affair at the Inn | Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith | 1856 | 1923 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33539 (83) |
18.1 | 1.46 | 10.9 | 64.8 | 8.7 | |
| Details | Foods and Household Management A Textbook of the Household Arts | Cooley, Anna M.Kinne, Helen | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
104617 (261) |
11.9 | 1.54 | 9.6 | 64.9 | 7.2 | |||
| Details | North and South | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn | 1810 | 1865 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
179050 (447) |
16.8 | 1.41 | 10.0 | 70.3 | 7.6 | |
| Details | Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master P | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
31960 (79) |
25.1 | 1.38 | 12.6 | 64.2 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | Poems | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) | 1865 | 1939 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
36280 (90) |
20.6 | 1.34 | 10.0 | 72.5 | 8.3 | |
| Details | An Imperial Marriage | Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) | 1852 | 1923 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
94091 (235) |
14.1 | 1.4 | 8.7 | 73.9 | 6.5 | |
| Details | The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1804 | 1864 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
83847 (209) |
23.1 | 1.53 | 14.2 | 53.8 | 11.5 | |
| Details | Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Trad | Fea, Allan | 1860 | 1956 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 | 19000 |
33872 (84) |
31.2 | 1.58 | 17.8 | 41.2 | 15.3 | |
| Details | Sailing Alone Around the World | Slocum, Joshua | 1844 | 1910 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 13000 | 20000 |
69436 (173) |
22.4 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 62.0 | 10.2 | |
| Details | The Book of Tea | Okakura, Kakuzo | 1862 | 1913 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
17957 (44) |
19.4 | 1.61 | 13.7 | 51.2 | 10.9 | |
| Details | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | Perrault, Charles | 1628 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
28065 (70) |
26.8 | 1.4 | 13.8 | 61.1 | 11.4 | |
| Details | My Reminiscences | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
60224 (150) |
20.0 | 1.51 | 12.6 | 58.7 | 10.1 | |
| Details | Love Among the Chickens | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
49955 (124) |
11.2 | 1.45 | 7.9 | 72.7 | 5.9 | |
| Details | Essays — First Series | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
74343 (185) |
20.7 | 1.49 | 13.0 | 60.1 | 10.0 | |
| Details | The Riddle of the Sands | Childers, Erskine | 1870 | 1922 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
107279 (268) |
16.5 | 1.47 | 10.2 | 66.1 | 8.1 | |
| Details | The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 | Cooper, James Fenimore | 1789 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
148091 (370) |
24.8 | 1.51 | 14.8 | 54.0 | 11.9 | |
| Details | Dombey and Son | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 24000 |
349083 (872) |
19.4 | 1.45 | 11.5 | 64.1 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Sons and Lovers | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) | 1885 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
158692 (396) |
9.8 | 1.38 | 6.4 | 80.6 | 4.4 | |
| Details | Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) | Abbott, Edwin Abbott | 1838 | 1926 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
33806 (84) |
24.3 | 1.58 | 15.3 | 48.8 | 12.5 | |
| Details | The Book of Mormon | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 1805 | 1844 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
275021 (687) |
35.8 | 1.39 | 17.5 | 53.1 | 14.7 | |
| Details | Twenty Years After | Dumas, Alexandre | 1802 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
240798 (601) |
13.6 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 69.5 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy, Baroness Emmuska | 1865 | 1947 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 21000 |
83462 (208) |
19.0 | 1.47 | 11.7 | 63.0 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | The Monk; a romance | Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) | 1775 | 1818 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
136838 (342) |
17.3 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 58.1 | 9.5 | |
| 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 | On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls | Beard, Lina | 1857 | 1920 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
57386 (143) |
21.5 | 1.42 | 11.7 | 65.1 | 9.5 | |
| 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 | 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 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 | Four Arthurian Romances | Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. | Comfort, William Wistar | (1874) | (1955) | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
189648 (474) |
20.4 | 1.34 | 10.7 | 72.4 | 8.2 |
| 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 | New Atlantis | Bacon, Francis | 1561 | 1626 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
15693 (39) |
33.2 | 1.42 | 17.1 | 52.8 | 14.2 | |
| Details | Father Goriot | Balzac, Honoré de | Marriage, Ellen | 1799 | 1850 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103094 (257) |
15.2 | 1.44 | 9.6 | 70.0 | 7.3 |
| Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
| Details | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
93989 (234) |
16.5 | 1.48 | 10.6 | 65.0 | 8.3 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) | Duncker, Max | Abbott, Evelyn | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
140000 (350) |
16.9 | 1.57 | 12.8 | 56.8 | 9.5 | ||
| Details | Christianity Unveiled Being An Examination of The Principles And Effects of The | Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' | Johnson, W. M. (William Martin) | 1723 (1771) | 1789 (1797) | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 13000 | 18000 |
39094 (97) |
21.4 | 1.64 | 15.8 | 46.2 | 12.1 |
| Details | The jungle book | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 25000 |
51432 (128) |
16.6 | 1.34 | 8.4 | 76.7 | 6.7 | |
| Details | The Shunned House | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) | 1890 | 1937 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
10663 (26) |
30.4 | 1.6 | 17.9 | 40.3 | 15.2 | |
| 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 | Peter and Wendy | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
47114 (117) |
14.8 | 1.36 | 8.4 | 76.5 | 6.3 | |
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.