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 | Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. | Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) | 1848 | 1929 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
150454 (376) |
32.0 | 1.5 | 17.5 | 47.8 | 14.5 | |
| Details | Moby Dick, or, the whale | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
211314 (528) |
21.5 | 1.49 | 12.6 | 59.4 | 10.3 | |
| Details | The Piazza Tales | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 21000 |
78731 (196) |
23.0 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 52.4 | 11.7 | |
| Details | Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street | Melville, Herman | 1819 | 1891 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 | 19000 |
14288 (35) |
17.6 | 1.57 | 12.3 | 56.2 | 9.8 | |
| Details | McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition | Mc | 1800 | 1873 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
7379 (18) |
10.1 | 1.27 | 5.3 | 89.4 | 3.3 | |
| Details | The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and | Mc | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 18000 |
63686 (159) |
20.7 | 1.51 | 13.1 | 58.4 | 10.3 | |||
| Details | McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book | Mc | 1800 | 1873 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 | 19000 | 21000 | 24000 |
20113 (50) |
11.6 | 1.47 | 6.8 | 70.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | British Political Leaders | Mc | 1830 | 1912 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
63507 (158) |
29.9 | 1.61 | 18.3 | 40.3 | 15.1 | |
| Details | Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant | Maupassant, Guy de | 1850 | 1893 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
489213 (1223) |
16.9 | 1.45 | 10.5 | 67.2 | 8.1 | |
| Details | Moon and Sixpence | Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) | 1874 | 1965 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
74760 (186) |
14.4 | 1.45 | 9.3 | 69.8 | 7.1 | |
| Details | Of Human Bondage | Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) | 1874 | 1965 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
258577 (646) |
15.5 | 1.42 | 9.6 | 70.9 | 7.2 | |
| Details | Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience | Matthews, Ike | 1857 | 1913 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
14490 (36) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.1 | 63.8 | 11.0 | |
| Details | History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) | Maspero, G. (Gaston) | McClure, M. L. | 1846 | 1916 (1918) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
92419 (231) |
25.9 | 1.58 | 16.3 | 46.5 | 13.2 |
| Details | Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | Marx, Karl | 1818 | 1883 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39830 (99) |
30.8 | 1.72 | 20.5 | 29.7 | 16.8 | |
| Details | Anthony Trent, Master Criminal | Martyn, Wyndham | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
80574 (201) |
12.7 | 1.48 | 9.3 | 69.0 | 6.8 | ||
| Details | The Behavior of Crowds A Psychological Study | Martin, Everett Dean | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70365 (175) |
18.9 | 1.69 | 14.8 | 44.7 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 15000 | 20000 | 23000 |
19258 (48) |
12.3 | 1.46 | 8.2 | 70.8 | 6.4 | |
| Details | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 | Marlowe, Christopher | 1564 | 1593 | 4000 | 6000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 | 24000 |
20740 (51) |
10.7 | 1.44 | 7.4 | 74.4 | 5.5 | |
| Details | Through Welsh Doorways | Marks, Jeannette Augustus | 1875 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 23000 |
41010 (102) |
15.1 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 7.1 | |
| Details | French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France | Marie, de France, 12th cent. | Mason, Eugene | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
73605 (184) |
19.2 | 1.33 | 10.0 | 74.8 | 7.6 | ||
| 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 | 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 | A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne | Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) | 1852 | 1923 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
96732 (241) |
17.1 | 1.41 | 10.0 | 70.0 | 7.7 | |
| Details | The Garden Party and Other Stories | Mansfield, Katherine | 1888 | 1923 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
56598 (141) |
10.5 | 1.39 | 6.6 | 78.9 | 4.9 | |
| 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 | 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 | Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other People | Mallery, Garrick | 1831 | 1894 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
115635 (289) |
19.9 | 1.6 | 14.1 | 51.4 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 | Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) | 1840 | 1914 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
206172 (515) |
29.9 | 1.59 | 18.0 | 41.9 | 14.8 | |
| Details | Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise | Maginnis, Charles Donagh | 1867 | 1955 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
16817 (42) |
14.9 | 1.61 | 12.1 | 55.5 | 9.2 | |
| Details | Surgical Anatomy | Maclise, Joseph | 5000 | 10000 | 16000 | 20000 | 22000 | 25000 |
106499 (266) |
18.9 | 1.7 | 15.7 | 43.8 | 11.9 | |||
| Details | The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and | Mackey, Albert Gallatin | 1807 | 1881 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
70062 (175) |
26.1 | 1.65 | 17.7 | 40.8 | 14.1 | |
| 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 | Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander) | 1873 | 1936 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 | 22000 |
149754 (374) |
21.1 | 1.64 | 14.9 | 46.6 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò | Marriott, W. K. (William K.) | 1469 | 1527 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
49271 (123) |
38.0 | 1.54 | 20.8 | 38.2 | 17.4 |
| Details | The Great God Pan | Machen, Arthur | 1863 | 1947 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
21527 (53) |
19.7 | 1.45 | 11.3 | 64.5 | 9.2 | |
| Details | The Princess and the Goblin | Mac | 1824 | 1905 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 15000 |
50659 (126) |
15.8 | 1.35 | 8.6 | 76.9 | 6.5 | |
| Details | The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t | Mac | 1843 | 1925 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
23934 (59) |
18.0 | 1.54 | 12.5 | 58.3 | 9.6 | |
| 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 | On the Nature of Things | Lucretius Carus, Titus | Leonard, William Ellery | 94BC (1876) | 49BC (1944) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 23000 |
73647 (184) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.5 | 47.2 | 17.1 |
| 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 | On the Sublime | Longinus, 1st cent. | Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord) | (1913) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
28948 (72) |
17.0 | 1.6 | 13.0 | 54.3 | 9.9 | |
| Details | English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English- | Long, William J. (William Joseph) | 1867 | 1952 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
204834 (512) |
22.9 | 1.6 | 15.1 | 48.5 | 12.2 | |
| Details | The Call of the Wild | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 23000 |
31797 (79) |
18.7 | 1.39 | 10.4 | 69.9 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | The Sea Wolf | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
105143 (262) |
15.0 | 1.43 | 9.1 | 70.8 | 7.1 | |
| Details | White Fang | London, Jack | 1876 | 1916 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 |
71789 (179) |
15.2 | 1.41 | 9.4 | 72.1 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Story of Doctor Dolittle | Lofting, Hugh | 1886 | 1947 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 |
25697 (64) |
14.6 | 1.33 | 7.6 | 79.6 | 5.8 | |
| 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 | An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Editi | Locke, John | 1632 | 1704 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
149042 (372) |
31.5 | 1.51 | 17.7 | 46.9 | 14.5 | |
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.