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 | The 2010 CIA World Factbook | United States. Central Intelligence Agency | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 24000 |
1297237 (3243) |
13.8 | 2.0 | 16.9 | 23.4 | 13.4 | |||
Details | Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete | Pepys, Samuel | Bright, Mynors | 1633 (1818) | 1703 (1883) | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 11000 | 13000 | 22000 |
1253859 (3134) |
30.4 | 1.36 | 14.6 | 61.3 | 12.3 |
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 Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series | Addison, Joseph | 1672 | 1719 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
929911 (2324) |
26.0 | 1.51 | 15.2 | 52.3 | 12.4 | |
Details | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | 1564 | 1616 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 | 23000 |
897318 (2243) |
9.5 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 79.1 | 4.6 | |
Details | The Grammar of English Grammars | Brown, Goold | 1791 | 1857 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
875923 (2189) |
10.3 | 1.55 | 9.6 | 65.3 | 6.7 | |
Details | The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 |
790029 (1975) |
26.6 | 1.35 | 13.2 | 66.1 | 10.6 | ||||
Details | The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi | Austen, Jane | 1775 | 1817 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
768172 (1920) |
21.8 | 1.5 | 13.4 | 58.0 | 10.6 | |
Details | The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General | Nuttall, P. Austin | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
758344 (1895) |
30.7 | 1.69 | 19.4 | 32.9 | 16.3 | |||
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 | War and Peace | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Maude, Aylmer | 1828 (1858) | 1910 (1938) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
560687 (1401) |
17.9 | 1.49 | 11.9 | 62.4 | 9.0 |
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 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 | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Burton, Robert | 1577 | 1640 | 4000 | 8000 | 14000 | 17000 | 20000 | 24000 |
513147 (1282) |
11.3 | 1.67 | 11.6 | 54.3 | 8.5 | |
Details | Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side | Pickthall, Marmaduke William | (1875) | (1936) | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
491525 (1228) |
16.4 | 1.38 | 9.5 | 73.6 | 7.1 | |
Details | Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant | Maupassant, Guy de | 1850 | 1893 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
489213 (1223) |
16.9 | 1.45 | 10.5 | 67.2 | 8.1 | |
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 | Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint | 1225 | 1274 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 11000 | 13000 | 20000 |
486564 (1216) |
17.0 | 1.55 | 12.7 | 58.7 | 9.3 | |
Details | Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete | Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de | 1769 | 1834 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 20000 |
484139 (1210) |
22.4 | 1.6 | 15.6 | 48.9 | 12.0 | |
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 | 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 | Ramayana. English | Valmiki | Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) | (1826) | (1906) | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 16000 | 22000 |
394725 (986) |
19.0 | 1.38 | 10.5 | 70.4 | 8.1 |
Details | Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Park, Robert Ezra | 1864 | 1944 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
388459 (971) |
14.6 | 1.73 | 13.7 | 45.3 | 10.6 | |
Details | All About Coffee | Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) | 1873 | 1945 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 12000 | 15000 | 22000 |
387030 (967) |
13.8 | 1.67 | 11.8 | 51.5 | 9.5 | |
Details | The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplifi | Pierce, Ray Vaughn | 1840 | 1914 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 14000 | 16000 | 21000 |
381700 (954) |
16.9 | 1.71 | 14.4 | 45.3 | 11.1 | |
Details | Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen | Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) | 1805 | 1875 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
370669 (926) |
20.0 | 1.36 | 10.4 | 71.6 | 8.2 | |
Details | David Copperfield | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
349774 (874) |
17.7 | 1.45 | 10.7 | 66.4 | 8.4 | |
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 Brothers Karamazov | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | 1821 | 1881 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
348671 (871) |
14.5 | 1.46 | 9.9 | 68.9 | 7.3 | |
Details | History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Fielding, Henry | 1707 | 1754 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
348464 (871) |
30.5 | 1.5 | 16.9 | 48.8 | 14.0 | |
Details | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Garnett, Constance | 1828 (1861) | 1910 (1946) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
348306 (870) |
16.8 | 1.46 | 10.8 | 66.2 | 8.2 |
Details | Bleak House | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
347904 (869) |
16.7 | 1.45 | 10.3 | 67.2 | 8.0 | |
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 | 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 | Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood | Prest, Thomas Preskett | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
327232 (818) |
18.9 | 1.43 | 11.3 | 66.6 | 8.7 | |||
Details | Our Mutual Friend | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 | 17000 |
319979 (799) |
15.6 | 1.46 | 10.0 | 67.8 | 7.7 | |
Details | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Rabelais, François | Urquhart, Thomas, Sir | 1483 (1611) | 1553 (1660) | 4000 | 7000 | 12000 | 16000 | 20000 | 24000 |
317921 (794) |
21.5 | 1.49 | 13.0 | 58.9 | 10.4 |
Details | Nicholas Nickleby | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
317769 (794) |
19.4 | 1.49 | 12.3 | 61.1 | 9.6 | |
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 | The Forsyte Saga - Complete | Galsworthy, John | 1867 | 1933 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
313254 (783) |
14.3 | 1.43 | 9.1 | 71.7 | 6.8 | |
Details | The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 | Yule, Henry, Sir | (1820) | (1889) | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 13000 | 15000 | 22000 |
313144 (782) |
16.0 | 1.55 | 11.7 | 59.5 | 8.9 | |
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 | 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 | The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Com | Foreman, John, F.R.G.S. | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 11000 | 14000 | 21000 |
303152 (757) |
22.2 | 1.7 | 16.6 | 40.5 | 13.1 | |||
Details | Vanity Fair | Thackeray, William Makepeace | 1811 | 1863 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 14000 | 21000 |
298755 (746) |
22.3 | 1.48 | 13.0 | 59.0 | 10.6 | |
Details | The Descent of Man | Darwin, Charles | 1809 | 1882 | 3000 | 5000 | 9000 | 12000 | 16000 | 23000 |
298564 (746) |
17.6 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 48.4 | 10.9 | |
Details | Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a Histor | Upham, Charles Wentworth | 1802 | 1875 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
294773 (736) |
22.0 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 52.6 | 11.4 | |
Details | Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Script | Talmage, James Edward | 1862 | 1933 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 13000 | 18000 |
294595 (736) |
23.6 | 1.55 | 15.2 | 51.9 | 11.9 | |
Details | The Pickwick Papers | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 14000 | 19000 |
290649 (726) |
17.4 | 1.51 | 11.3 | 61.7 | 9.0 |
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.