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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 Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas Becke, Louis 1855 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 66427
    (166)
    21.6 1.39 11.4 67.0 9.3
    Details True Bear Stories Miller, Joaquin 1837 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 42215
    (105)
    21.2 1.4 11.4 66.9 9.2
    Details A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 -Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 1912 7000 13000 14000 19000 22000 25000 99841
    (249)
    2.9 1.57 5.4 70.8 4.1
    Details Dracula Stoker, Bram 1847 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 159139
    (397)
    18.2 1.36 9.8 73.3 7.5
    Details Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The fiddle and the bow, The paradise of fools, Visions Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love) 1850 1912 4000 6000 9000 12000 14000 21000 29397
    (73)
    21.5 1.46 12.3 61.5 10.0
    Details The Royal Picture Alphabet Leighton, John 1822 1912 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 21000 5109
    (12)
    17.3 1.49 11.1 63.1 8.7
    Details The Arabian Nights Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 16000 111534
    (278)
    23.9 1.4 12.9 63.8 10.3
    Details The Blue Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 16000 138225
    (345)
    24.9 1.35 12.4 67.7 10.0
    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 The Yellow Fairy Book Lang, Andrew 1844 1912 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 15000 111039
    (277)
    21.0 1.33 10.6 73.2 8.3
    Details As a Man Thinketh Allen, James 1864 1912 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 15000 7517
    (18)
    26.6 1.56 16.3 47.6 13.2
    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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 20000 110968
    (277)
    42.0 1.3 18.2 54.1 16.2
    Details A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 116398
    (290)
    20.0 1.42 11.2 66.5 9.0
    Details The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 69129
    (172)
    40.3 1.43 19.6 44.9 17.0
    Details The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 69729
    (174)
    14.3 1.4 8.6 74.1 6.5
    Details How to Tell a Story and Other Essays Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 18000 7146
    (17)
    21.7 1.43 12.0 64.0 9.7
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 8575
    (21)
    17.3 1.3 8.5 79.1 6.5
    Details The Innocents Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 190987
    (477)
    21.8 1.49 13.0 58.5 10.5
    Details The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 6000 9000 12000 21000 108599
    (271)
    18.5 1.3 8.7 78.1 7.0
    Details Sketches New and Old Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 96722
    (241)
    21.2 1.49 12.8 59.3 10.3
    Details The Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 41011
    (102)
    19.2 1.39 10.6 69.8 8.3
    Details A Tramp Abroad Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 153271
    (383)
    21.7 1.47 12.5 60.1 10.3
    Details The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 111009
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    Details Roughing It Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 164013
    (410)
    22.6 1.49 13.2 57.9 10.8
    Details 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 6000 10000 13000 16000 22000 11354
    (28)
    22.8 1.57 14.4 51.0 11.8
    Details What Is Man? and Other Essays Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 92556
    (231)
    13.5 1.5 9.8 66.4 7.4
    Details The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 93327
    (233)
    18.8 1.47 11.6 63.5 9.1
    Details Mark Twain's Speeches Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 17000 92337
    (230)
    19.2 1.47 11.6 63.2 9.2
    Details Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 2000 6000 9000 12000 19000 11622
    (29)
    15.8 1.29 7.4 81.3 5.8
    Details The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1835 1911 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 18000 52382
    (130)
    19.1 1.41 11.0 67.9 8.5
    Details Eve's Diary, Complete Twain, Mark 1835 1911 1000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 6746
    (16)
    19.9 1.37 10.4 70.6 8.4
    Details Following the Equator Twain, Mark 1835 1911 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 184337
    (460)
    20.0 1.5 12.4 60.0 9.9
    Details The Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 1853 1911 4000 6000 11000 15000 20000 22000 110924
    (277)
    22.3 1.31 10.1 73.7 8.5
    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 Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 348306
    (870)
    16.8 1.46 10.8 66.2 8.2
    Details The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 99183
    (247)
    24.2 1.6 15.8 47.2 12.7
    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 What Men Live By and Other Tales Tolstoy, Leo, graf Maude, Aylmer 1828 (1858) 1910 (1938) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 13000 18752
    (46)
    15.5 1.32 8.1 79.2 6.1
    Details Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman Davis, Rebecca Harding 1831 1910 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 15000 14838
    (37)
    13.6 1.38 7.8 76.2 6.0
    Details The Kingdom of God Is Within You Tolstoy, Leo, graf Garnett, Constance 1828 (1861) 1910 (1946) 3000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 123231
    (308)
    31.0 1.56 18.3 43.6 14.9
    Details The Gift of the Magi Henry, O. 1862 1910 2000 5000 7000 11000 12000 14000 2038
    (5)
    12.6 1.42 8.1 74.2 6.0
    Details The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Tolstoy, Leo, graf Tucker, Benjamin R. 1828 1910 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 63962
    (159)
    17.1 1.47 11.0 65.1 8.4
    Details The Four Million Henry, O. 1862 1910 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 21000 51419
    (128)
    14.7 1.47 9.6 67.7 7.5
    Details Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 183540
    (458)
    24.9 1.6 16.0 46.6 12.9
    Details The Diva's Ruby Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 2000 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 115276
    (288)
    18.3 1.42 10.9 67.9 8.3
    Details The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Ames, Azel 1845 1908 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 22000 90669
    (226)
    21.5 1.56 13.7 53.4 11.1
    Details Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit Harris, Joel Chandler 1848 1908 2000 6000 9000 14000 17000 22000 6823
    (17)
    22.2 1.24 10.0 79.0 7.8
    Details The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights Knowles, James, Sir 1831 1908 3000 5000 10000 12000 15000 21000 93384
    (233)
    26.0 1.32 12.6 68.7 10.1
    Details Demonology and Devil-lore Conway, Moncure Daniel 1832 1907 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 21000 259586
    (648)
    23.5 1.56 14.8 51.0 12.0

    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.