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 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 | Very Short Stories and Verses For Children | Clifford, W. K., Mrs. | 1929 | 1000 | 2000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
14400 (36) |
16.8 | 1.3 | 7.9 | 79.9 | 6.3 | ||
| 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 | Prufrock and Other Observations | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3812 (9) |
24.3 | 1.44 | 12.9 | 60.7 | 10.8 | |
| Details | Uncle Vanya | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | 1860 | 1904 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 16000 |
16391 (40) |
8.8 | 1.44 | 7.1 | 76.2 | 4.8 | |
| Details | Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
92171 (230) |
28.4 | 1.6 | 17.7 | 43.0 | 14.3 | |
| Details | Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) | 1822 | 1885 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
276868 (692) |
20.5 | 1.55 | 13.9 | 54.7 | 10.7 | |
| Details | Political Ideals | Russell, Bertrand | 1872 | 1970 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 |
22188 (55) |
25.4 | 1.64 | 16.9 | 42.1 | 13.7 | |
| 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 Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses | Wellman, Francis L. | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 15000 |
53685 (134) |
14.8 | 1.56 | 11.1 | 60.0 | 8.6 | |||
| Details | Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) | 1860 | 1937 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 12000 |
1073 (2) |
20.2 | 1.37 | 10.7 | 70.8 | 8.4 | |
| Details | Turner | Monkhouse, William Cosmo | 1840 | 1901 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
39762 (99) |
26.3 | 1.52 | 15.5 | 51.2 | 12.7 | |
| Details | The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection | Casteel, D. B. | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 | 20000 |
12517 (31) |
21.6 | 1.57 | 13.5 | 52.3 | 11.3 | |||
| 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 | Music Notation and Terminology | Gehrkens, Karl Wilson | 1882 | 1975 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
40795 (101) |
13.0 | 1.66 | 11.8 | 53.5 | 9.0 | |
| Details | The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe | Cole, Fay-Cooper | 1881 | 1961 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
96647 (241) |
18.5 | 1.52 | 12.1 | 59.4 | 9.6 | |
| Details | The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Informa | New York Central Railroad Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
48248 (120) |
14.7 | 1.63 | 12.4 | 53.8 | 9.4 | |||
| Details | Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribut | Anonymous | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
132745 (331) |
17.9 | 1.72 | 15.0 | 42.8 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | The Secret Sharer | Conrad, Joseph | 1857 | 1924 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
16439 (41) |
14.4 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 70.9 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Phantom of the Opera | Leroux, Gaston | 1868 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
84224 (210) |
14.8 | 1.44 | 9.6 | 69.6 | 7.2 | |
| Details | Night and Day | Woolf, Virginia | 1882 | 1941 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
164999 (412) |
18.4 | 1.49 | 11.9 | 62.0 | 9.2 | |
| 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 | 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 | Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover | Anonymous | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
32078 (80) |
36.5 | 1.52 | 19.6 | 41.2 | 16.6 | |||
| 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 | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 15000 |
13203 (33) |
15.7 | 1.65 | 13.1 | 51.3 | 10.0 | |||
| 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 | Little Jeanne of France | Brandeis, Madeline | 1897 | 1937 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 | 17000 |
15537 (38) |
10.6 | 1.39 | 6.4 | 78.6 | 4.9 | |
| Details | The Old Curiosity Shop | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
213290 (533) |
20.8 | 1.43 | 12.0 | 64.6 | 9.4 | |
| Details | The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 | James, Henry | 1843 | 1916 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
115618 (289) |
16.4 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 64.4 | 8.4 | |
| 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 | Grimm's Fairy Stories | Grimm, Wilhelm | 1786 | 1859 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
50632 (126) |
23.0 | 1.31 | 11.1 | 72.8 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Sense and Sensibility | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 |
120454 (301) |
22.9 | 1.52 | 14.4 | 55.1 | 11.3 | |
| 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 Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 | Craven, Wesley Frank | 1905 | 1981 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 |
20141 (50) |
29.4 | 1.67 | 19.4 | 36.0 | 15.5 | |
| 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 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 | On Liberty | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
51737 (129) |
35.8 | 1.64 | 21.3 | 31.8 | 17.7 | |
| Details | The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught | Nott, Charles C. | 1827 | 1916 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 9000 | 10000 | 17000 |
59403 (148) |
24.7 | 1.63 | 17.1 | 43.9 | 13.3 | |
| Details | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
22287 (55) |
11.7 | 1.47 | 8.3 | 70.5 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education | Dewey, John | 1859 | 1952 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 13000 |
134869 (337) |
23.7 | 1.73 | 17.5 | 36.1 | 14.1 | |
| 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 | Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I | Spenser, Edmund | 1552 | 1599 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 | 24000 |
70160 (175) |
17.3 | 1.43 | 10.4 | 68.1 | 8.1 | |
| 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 | Piper in the Woods | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
7221 (18) |
7.9 | 1.41 | 6.3 | 79.3 | 4.2 | |
| Details | Little Dorrit | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
332182 (830) |
18.1 | 1.47 | 11.2 | 64.5 | 8.8 | |
| Details | Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G | Boswell, James | 1740 | 1795 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
214740 (536) |
20.2 | 1.52 | 12.9 | 57.9 | 10.2 | |
| Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
77252 (193) |
18.8 | 1.58 | 13.2 | 53.7 | 10.5 | |
| Details | Women in Love | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) | 1885 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
179224 (448) |
11.2 | 1.45 | 8.1 | 72.8 | 5.9 | |
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.