This table shows the readability data of selected Project Gutenberg eBooks.
Vocabulary Coverage (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%) |
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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 | Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, S | Kleiser, Grenville | 1868 | 1953 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 17000 | 22000 |
81255 (203) |
230.2 | 1.83 | 101.1 | -181.4 | 95.7 | |
Details | Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth | Descartes, René | 1596 | 1650 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
23024 (57) |
81.4 | 1.54 | 38.0 | -5.7 | 34.3 | |
Details | Politics: A Treatise on Government | Aristotle | Ellis, William | 384BC | 322BC | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
101343 (253) |
55.7 | 1.54 | 27.9 | 20.4 | 24.2 |
Details | Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, | Cleland, John | 1709 | 1789 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
84355 (210) |
57.8 | 1.49 | 27.7 | 22.4 | 24.5 | |
Details | The Critique of Practical Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill | 1724 (1829) | 1804 (1913) | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
62637 (156) |
50.4 | 1.64 | 27.2 | 16.6 | 23.4 |
Details | The Princess of Cleves | La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) | 1634 | 1693 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
61526 (153) |
56.6 | 1.45 | 26.7 | 27.1 | 23.5 | |
Details | A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE | Casas, Bartolomé de las | 1474 | 1566 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
30124 (75) |
53.7 | 1.51 | 26.5 | 24.5 | 23.2 | |
Details | Utopia | More, Thomas, Sir, Saint | 1478 | 1535 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
43401 (108) |
55.4 | 1.43 | 26.2 | 29.7 | 22.9 | |
Details | A Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 14000 | 18000 |
3406 (8) |
50.8 | 1.53 | 25.1 | 25.5 | 22.3 | |
Details | In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius | 1469 | 1536 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
44403 (111) |
48.2 | 1.52 | 24.3 | 29.4 | 21.1 | |
Details | The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America | United States | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
1478 (3) |
39.9 | 1.71 | 24.3 | 21.5 | 20.2 | |||
Details | The Golden Asse | Apuleius, Lucius | 125 | 180 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 15000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80574 (201) |
51.6 | 1.43 | 24.2 | 33.7 | 21.4 | |
Details | Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying | Hooke, Robert | 1635 | 1703 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
147089 (367) |
48.8 | 1.46 | 23.6 | 33.9 | 20.7 | |
Details | The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
215612 (539) |
48.7 | 1.41 | 23.1 | 37.8 | 20.1 |
Details | The Critique of Pure Reason | Kant, Immanuel | Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) | 1724 (1830) | 1804 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 18000 |
206467 (516) |
35.8 | 1.72 | 22.9 | 24.9 | 18.7 |
Details | Paradise Lost | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 4000 | 7000 | 13000 | 18000 | 18000 | 23000 |
79709 (199) |
49.9 | 1.37 | 22.9 | 40.2 | 20.1 | |
Details | Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament o | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 15000 | 21000 |
17989 (44) |
44.3 | 1.51 | 22.9 | 34.0 | 19.5 | |
Details | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
120387 (300) |
49.5 | 1.38 | 22.5 | 39.8 | 20.0 | |
Details | A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while i | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 |
93796 (234) |
46.5 | 1.43 | 22.5 | 38.7 | 19.4 | |
Details | Utilitarianism | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
27456 (68) |
39.0 | 1.64 | 22.5 | 28.2 | 19.0 | |
Details | The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | Crawley, Richard | 455BC (1840) | 395BC (1893) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
204634 (511) |
39.8 | 1.57 | 22.0 | 33.4 | 18.5 |
Details | Strictures on Nullification | Everett, Alexander Hill | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
30117 (75) |
36.3 | 1.66 | 22.0 | 29.6 | 18.2 | |||
Details | Theory of the Leisure Class | Veblen, Thorstein | 1857 | 1929 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 13000 | 19000 |
105017 (262) |
33.7 | 1.76 | 21.7 | 24.1 | 18.3 | |
Details | Don Quixote | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Ormsby, John | 1547 (1829) | 1616 (1895) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
425471 (1063) |
45.3 | 1.41 | 21.6 | 41.9 | 18.7 |
Details | A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive | Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
408771 (1021) |
35.2 | 1.66 | 21.6 | 30.6 | 17.7 | |
Details | The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio | Boccaccio, Giovanni | Payne, John | 1313 (1842) | 1375 (1916) | 3000 | 6000 | 12000 | 15000 | 18000 | 22000 |
306465 (766) |
44.1 | 1.44 | 21.5 | 40.2 | 18.6 |
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 | On the origin of species | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
205539 (513) |
35.3 | 1.67 | 21.2 | 29.5 | 17.9 | |
Details | Democracy in America — Volume 1 | Tocqueville, Alexis de | Reeve, Henry | 1805 (1813) | 1859 (1895) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
188399 (470) |
33.7 | 1.67 | 21.0 | 31.4 | 17.3 |
Details | Paradise Lost | Milton, John | 1608 | 1674 | 4000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 17000 | 23000 |
80144 (200) |
43.3 | 1.42 | 21.0 | 42.9 | 18.0 | |
Details | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Sterne, Laurence | 1713 | 1768 | 2000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 17000 | 22000 |
179035 (447) |
43.2 | 1.45 | 21.0 | 40.2 | 18.4 | |
Details | The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 | Herodotus | Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) | 480BC (1852) | 420BC (1915) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
145187 (362) |
39.5 | 1.5 | 20.9 | 40.1 | 17.5 |
Details | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò | Marriott, W. K. (William K.) | 1469 | 1527 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
49271 (123) |
38.0 | 1.54 | 20.8 | 38.2 | 17.4 |
Details | The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Alexander | 1757 | 1804 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
191873 (479) |
31.9 | 1.69 | 20.8 | 31.4 | 16.8 | |
Details | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 19000 |
48155 (120) |
31.1 | 1.71 | 20.6 | 30.5 | 16.7 | |
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 | The Essays of Montaigne — Complete | Montaigne, Michel de | Cotton, Charles | 1533 (1630) | 1592 (1687) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
524667 (1311) |
38.4 | 1.52 | 20.3 | 39.6 | 17.3 |
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 | On War — Volume 1 | Clausewitz, Carl von | Graham, J. J., Colonel | 1780 | 1831 | 3000 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 15000 |
106755 (266) |
34.3 | 1.59 | 20.0 | 37.3 | 16.6 |
Details | The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) | Schopenhauer, Arthur | 1788 | 1860 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
200546 (501) |
34.4 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 36.7 | 16.7 | |
Details | Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex | Freud, Sigmund | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) | 1856 (1874) | 1939 (1948) | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 11000 | 16000 | 18000 |
40617 (101) |
25.5 | 1.84 | 20.0 | 25.3 | 16.1 |
Details | Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Zimmern, Helen | 1844 (1846) | 1900 (1934) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
61977 (154) |
32.8 | 1.65 | 19.9 | 33.7 | 16.7 |
Details | A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, David | 1711 | 1776 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 |
225521 (563) |
31.6 | 1.65 | 19.8 | 35.3 | 16.2 | |
Details | The Life of Reason The Phases of Human Progress | Santayana, George | 1863 | 1952 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
317310 (793) |
29.2 | 1.72 | 19.8 | 31.8 | 16.1 | |
Details | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | De Quincey, Thomas | 1785 | 1859 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
38035 (95) |
35.9 | 1.57 | 19.8 | 37.2 | 17.0 | |
Details | Antiquities of the Jews | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
531622 (1329) |
37.5 | 1.46 | 19.8 | 44.8 | 16.3 |
Details | The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem | Josephus, Flavius | Whiston, William | 38 (1667) | 100 (1752) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 18000 |
233520 (583) |
37.5 | 1.47 | 19.7 | 44.6 | 16.4 |
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 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders | Defoe, Daniel | 1661 | 1731 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
137615 (344) |
41.8 | 1.39 | 19.7 | 47.2 | 17.1 | |
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 |
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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.