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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 Mystery of Edwin Drood Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 93989
    (234)    		 16.5 1.48 10.6 65.0 8.3
    Details The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 6000 9000 13000 16000 20000 1235
    (3)    		 18.4 1.46 10.1 65.0 8.8
    Details Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair 1885 1951 3000 5000 10000 16000 21000 21000 120915
    (302)    		 15.4 1.49 10.0 65.0 8.0
    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 Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Boy Scouts of America 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 122326
    (305)    		 15.9 1.49 10.6 64.8 8.2
    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 The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 15000 9893
    (24)    		 16.6 1.48 10.8 64.8 8.3
    Details The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale 2000 5000 5000 7000 11000 13000 1406
    (3)    		 18.5 1.46 11.5 64.8 8.8
    Details An English Grammar Sewell, James Witt 1865 1955 3000 6000 9000 12000 14000 22000 73343
    (183)    		 9.9 1.56 9.7 64.8 6.7
    Details The Land That Time Forgot Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 2000 4000 7000 11000 15000 22000 36905
    (92)    		 20.0 1.44 11.3 64.7 9.2
    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 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 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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyám FitzGerald, Edward 1048 (1809) 1122 (1883) 4000 6000 10000 14000 17000 23000 11527
    (28)    		 18.2 1.46 11.1 64.5 8.8
    Details Erotica Romana Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 4000 7000 11000 14000 17000 24000 6681
    (16)    		 16.7 1.48 10.8 64.5 8.4
    Details The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes Henry VIII, King of England 1491 1547 2000 3000 7000 12000 13000 17000 5585
    (13)    		 22.3 1.42 12.3 64.4 9.8
    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 South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir 1874 1922 2000 4000 8000 10000 14000 17000 144681
    (361)    		 17.8 1.47 11.0 64.4 8.7
    Details Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 84994
    (212)    		 19.6 1.45 11.4 64.4 9.1
    Details Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus Buckley, Theodore Alois 525BC (1825) 456BC (1856) 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 23000 27489
    (68)    		 12.4 1.53 9.8 64.4 7.4
    Details The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put Riley, Harvey 2000 4000 6000 8000 12000 19000 28496
    (71)    		 21.3 1.43 12.1 64.4 9.6
    Details Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 1816 1855 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 18000 183151
    (457)    		 18.5 1.46 11.2 64.3 8.9
    Details The Possessed (The Devils) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Garnett, Constance 1821 (1861) 1881 (1946) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 16000 252520
    (631)    		 15.5 1.5 10.9 64.3 8.1
    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 Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 9000 11000 22000 82534
    (206)    		 20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Gods of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 22000 82500
    (206)    		 20.2 1.44 11.5 64.2 9.3
    Details The Tale of Tom Kitten Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 3000 7000 10000 13000 13000 13000 754
    (1)    		 15.1 1.51 10.2 64.2 8.1
    Details Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Winslow, Anna Green 1759 1779 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 21000 27973
    (69)    		 17.1 1.48 10.7 64.2 8.6
    Details Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 74652
    (186)    		 18.2 1.47 11.3 64.2 8.8
    Details Les Misérables Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 3000 5000 9000 12000 14000 21000 562958
    (1407)    		 15.6 1.5 10.9 64.1 8.2
    Details Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 7000 11000 13000 24000 349083
    (872)    		 19.4 1.45 11.5 64.1 9.1
    Details The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 16000 241638
    (604)    		 17.8 1.47 11.3 64.1 8.7
    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 Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers Hughes, Talbot 1869 1942 4000 5000 10000 11000 14000 21000 30554
    (76)    		 12.8 1.54 9.6 63.9 7.5
    Details The Book of Household Management Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 21000 488058
    (1220)    		 15.8 1.5 10.5 63.9 8.3
    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 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 Notre-Dame De Paris Hugo, Victor Hapgood, Isabel Florence 1802 (1850) 1885 (1928) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 25000 183996
    (459)    		 16.4 1.49 10.9 63.8 8.5
    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 Tale of Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1866 1943 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 13000 991
    (2)    		 17.1 1.49 10.6 63.7 8.6
    Details Mystère de la chambre jaune. English Leroux, Gaston 1868 1927 2000 4000 9000 10000 11000 19000 73022
    (182)    		 15.8 1.5 11.3 63.7 8.3
    Details Workhouse Characters and other sketches of the life of the poor. Nevinson, Margaret Wynne 2000 4000 7000 9000 11000 17000 36252
    (90)    		 23.5 1.41 12.2 63.7 10.2
    Details Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Richardson, Samuel 1689 1761 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 221156
    (552)    		 26.6 1.37 13.2 63.7 11.0
    Details The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 1802 1870 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 18000 457024
    (1142)    		 16.8 1.49 11.3 63.6 8.6
    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 Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 1877 1962 2000 3000 6000 9000 17000 20000 39112
    (97)    		 21.2 1.44 12.4 63.5 9.7
    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 Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Aesop Townsend, George Fyler 620BC (1814) 563BC (1900) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 40748
    (101)    		 22.2 1.43 12.6 63.5 9.9
    Details The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 110838
    (277)    		 18.2 1.48 11.5 63.5 8.9
    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

    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.