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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 The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures Hopkins, Mark 1802 1887 3000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 15404
    (38)
    32.4 1.55 18.6 43.2 15.3
    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
    Details The Art of Public Speaking Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) 1867 1946 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 16000 154880
    (387)
    17.2 1.54 12.1 59.1 9.3
    Details The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Digby, Kenelm 1603 1665 3000 6000 10000 14000 18000 23000 92490
    (231)
    27.3 1.37 13.1 63.1 11.2
    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 Email 101 Goodwin, John 3000 3000 5000 7000 11000 19000 19561
    (48)
    15.1 1.63 12.3 53.6 9.5
    Details What's Wrong with the World Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874 1936 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 59904
    (149)
    22.5 1.55 14.2 52.8 11.5
    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 In the Year 2889 Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 4000 6000 8000 12000 18000 5492
    (13)
    13.1 1.57 11.0 60.7 8.0
    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 Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868 1963 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 68801
    (172)
    25.9 1.53 14.9 51.3 12.5
    Details Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 100810
    (252)
    18.0 1.48 11.5 63.6 8.9
    Details Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Harvey, Alexander Miller 1844 (1867) 1900 (1928) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 18000 36537
    (91)
    32.2 1.65 19.7 34.9 16.4
    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 Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours Newton, Isaac, Sir 1642 1727 3000 5000 9000 10000 12000 18000 96556
    (241)
    32.8 1.5 18.0 46.6 14.9
    Details Shakspere & Typography Blades, William 1824 1890 3000 4000 8000 11000 14000 19000 6763
    (16)
    19.3 1.59 13.4 53.1 10.6
    Details Man and Superman Shaw, Bernard 1856 1950 3000 5000 9000 14000 14000 18000 68390
    (170)
    12.1 1.51 9.4 66.6 7.0
    Details Ghostly Phenomena O'Donnell, Elliott 1872 1965 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 15000 34834
    (87)
    25.6 1.56 15.5 48.9 12.8
    Details House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 19000 105173
    (262)
    22.8 1.54 14.1 53.6 11.4
    Details Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Molière Jones, Philip Dwight 1622 1673 3000 5000 9000 10000 14000 16000 18257
    (45)
    11.3 1.49 8.4 69.7 6.3
    Details The Pencil of Nature Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800 1877 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 14000 9368
    (23)
    19.4 1.6 13.8 52.0 10.8
    Details Human Animals Hamel, Frank 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 97180
    (242)
    23.3 1.51 14.0 55.5 11.3
    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 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 Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Elliott, James, Sir 1880 1959 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 23000 36438
    (91)
    20.3 1.66 15.5 45.7 11.9
    Details Alexander the Great Makers of History Abbott, Jacob 1803 1879 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 18000 52859
    (132)
    23.5 1.6 15.8 48.0 12.4
    Details Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate Nevinson, John L. 3000 5000 11000 14000 18000 25000 9332
    (23)
    20.1 1.67 14.7 45.4 11.9
    Details The Analysis of Mind Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 3000 3000 5000 6000 8000 15000 88527
    (221)
    24.8 1.63 16.8 43.3 13.4
    Details Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) 1850 1896 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 102413
    (256)
    19.1 1.47 12.0 62.6 9.3
    Details John Deere's Steel Plow Kendall, Edward C. 3000 5000 7000 8000 10000 15000 5509
    (13)
    17.7 1.53 12.1 59.4 9.4
    Details Democracy in America — Volume 2 Tocqueville, Alexis de Reeve, Henry 1805 (1813) 1859 (1895) 3000 4000 7000 8000 11000 16000 140667
    (351)
    33.1 1.64 20.1 34.3 16.7
    Details The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Cody, Sherwin 1868 1959 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 59114
    (147)
    18.7 1.52 12.4 59.0 9.7
    Details Voyage au centre de la terre. English Verne, Jules Malleson, Frederick Amadeus 1828 (1819) 1905 (1897) 3000 5000 7000 10000 13000 19000 73544
    (183)
    14.7 1.51 10.6 63.9 8.0
    Details The Mysteries of Udolpho Radcliffe, Ann Ward 1764 1823 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 289394
    (723)
    27.3 1.53 16.5 49.8 13.1
    Details Common Sense Paine, Thomas 1737 1809 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 16000 19419
    (48)
    29.7 1.55 17.5 45.4 14.3
    Details The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772 1834 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 3850
    (9)
    15.8 1.28 7.4 82.7 5.7
    Details The Vampyre; a Tale Polidori, John William 1795 1821 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 21000 12586
    (31)
    34.3 1.52 18.9 43.3 15.7
    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 Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Bes 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 146705
    (366)
    15.3 1.43 9.6 70.6 7.2
    Details De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries Caesar, Julius McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) 100BC 44BC 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 158969
    (397)
    33.9 1.55 19.3 41.0 16.0
    Details The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet or Practical Instructions on the Form Hibberd, Shirley 3000 5000 9000 12000 17000 22000 40114
    (100)
    17.5 1.59 12.8 54.9 10.0
    Details On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Carlyle, Thomas 1795 1881 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 87919
    (219)
    22.6 1.49 13.4 58.1 10.8
    Details The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Behn, Aphra 1640 1689 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 22000 144849
    (362)
    9.2 1.4 6.7 78.6 4.6
    Details From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Verne, Jules 1828 1905 3000 5000 8000 11000 12000 20000 90543
    (226)
    15.8 1.59 12.5 56.4 9.3
    Details Defenders of Democracy Anonymous 3000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 12711
    (31)
    5.7 1.71 9.4 56.4 6.8
    Details Essays in Experimental Logic Dewey, John 1859 1952 3000 3000 6000 7000 9000 15000 107047
    (267)
    25.9 1.71 18.1 36.3 14.6
    Details The Civil War in America Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861 Russell, William Howard, Sir 1820 1907 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 80322
    (200)
    29.0 1.55 17.0 46.6 14.0
    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 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 Beautiful and Damned Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896 1940 3000 4000 8000 10000 12000 17000 121625
    (304)
    14.9 1.54 11.1 61.3 8.4

    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.