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 | Siddhartha | Hesse, Hermann | 1877 | 1962 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 17000 | 20000 |
39112 (97) |
21.2 | 1.44 | 12.4 | 63.5 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) | 1851 | 1935 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
165374 (413) |
21.2 | 1.53 | 13.7 | 56.2 | 10.7 | |
| 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 | Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a | Bradford, William | 1590 | 1657 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 | 23000 |
169207 (423) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
81525 (203) |
21.2 | 1.34 | 10.3 | 71.7 | 8.5 | |
| Details | Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World | Cook, James | 1728 | 1779 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
220361 (550) |
21.2 | 1.45 | 12.3 | 62.8 | 9.8 | |
| Details | Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma | 1869 | 1940 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
67167 (167) |
21.2 | 1.64 | 15.1 | 46.2 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Poems | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 15000 | 19000 | 22000 |
6546 (16) |
21.2 | 1.49 | 12.5 | 59.2 | 10.3 | |
| Details | The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper | Homer | Cowper, William | 750BC (1731) | 650BC (1800) | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 | 24000 |
169570 (423) |
21.2 | 1.46 | 12.7 | 61.8 | 9.9 |
| 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 | Omens and Superstitions of Southern India | Thurston, Edgar | 1855 | 1935 | 3000 | 5000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 | 23000 |
93609 (234) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.6 | 54.1 | 10.9 | |
| Details | Northanger Abbey | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
76450 (191) |
21.1 | 1.5 | 13.2 | 58.4 | 10.4 | |
| Details | The Spell of Belgium | Anderson, Isabel | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
89821 (224) |
21.1 | 1.53 | 13.4 | 56.3 | 10.6 | |||
| 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 | Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
64184 (160) |
21.1 | 1.55 | 13.8 | 54.0 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Personality of American Cities | Hungerford, Edward | 1875 | 1948 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
105425 (263) |
21.1 | 1.51 | 12.8 | 57.8 | 10.4 | |
| Details | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1809 | 1849 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
71189 (177) |
21.1 | 1.5 | 13.0 | 58.2 | 10.4 | |
| Details | Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | 1803 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
91306 (228) |
21.0 | 1.53 | 13.6 | 55.9 | 10.7 | |
| Details | The Wendigo | Blackwood, Algernon | 1869 | 1951 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
18159 (45) |
21.0 | 1.49 | 12.9 | 59.1 | 10.2 | |
| 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 | 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 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 | The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told | Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur) | 1861 | 1933 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 20000 |
104277 (260) |
20.9 | 1.61 | 14.4 | 49.3 | 11.6 | |
| Details | Emma | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 |
155516 (388) |
20.8 | 1.47 | 12.4 | 61.1 | 9.9 | |
| 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 Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo | Machen, Arthur | 1725 (1863) | 1798 (1947) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
1251067 (3127) |
20.8 | 1.46 | 12.2 | 62.4 | 9.7 |
| 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 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man | Patañjali | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 20000 |
30099 (75) |
20.8 | 1.55 | 14.2 | 54.3 | 10.9 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Middlemarch | Eliot, George | 1819 | 1880 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
311801 (779) |
20.7 | 1.49 | 12.8 | 59.3 | 10.1 | |
| 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 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 | 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 | Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor | Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John) | 1821 | 1878 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 14000 | 20000 |
87404 (218) |
20.7 | 1.45 | 11.9 | 62.9 | 9.6 | |
| 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 | The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron | 1788 | 1824 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 23000 |
121886 (304) |
20.6 | 1.42 | 11.7 | 66.2 | 9.1 | |
| Details | Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English | Stanton, Henry | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 20000 |
13663 (34) |
20.6 | 1.66 | 15.5 | 45.6 | 12.0 | |||
| 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 | Japanese Fairy Tales | Ozaki, Yei Theodora | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
70489 (176) |
20.6 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 70.7 | 8.5 | |||
| Details | The Ten Books on Architecture | Vitruvius Pollio | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 22000 |
97942 (244) |
20.5 | 1.5 | 13.2 | 58.7 | 10.2 | |||
| 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 | Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers | Winks, William Edward | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
99421 (248) |
20.5 | 1.55 | 13.5 | 54.9 | 10.7 | |||
| 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 | Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 24000 |
70188 (175) |
20.5 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 61.1 | 9.8 | ||||
| Details | Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time | Litchfield, Frederick | 1850 | 1930 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 25000 |
73893 (184) |
20.4 | 1.66 | 15.3 | 45.4 | 12.0 | |
| 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 | Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete | Various | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 21000 |
335852 (839) |
20.4 | 1.57 | 13.6 | 53.1 | 10.9 | |||
| Details | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Douglass, Frederick | 1818 | 1895 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
40404 (101) |
20.3 | 1.48 | 12.3 | 60.7 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | |
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.