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 | The Communist Manifesto | Engels, Friedrich | 1820 | 1895 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
11413 (28) |
24.1 | 1.81 | 19.1 | 29.5 | 15.1 | |
| Details | Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 1667 | 1745 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
103706 (259) |
36.5 | 1.51 | 19.2 | 42.3 | 16.4 | |
| Details | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 19000 |
26275 (65) |
16.6 | 1.36 | 8.7 | 75.1 | 6.9 | |
| Details | The Jungle Book | Kipling, Rudyard | 1865 | 1936 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 25000 |
50599 (126) |
15.9 | 1.33 | 8.1 | 78.1 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
67669 (169) |
17.9 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.3 | 7.3 | |
| 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 | The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races | Allen, Emory Adams | 1853 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
206643 (516) |
18.2 | 1.56 | 13.0 | 56.2 | 9.9 | ||
| 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 | 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 Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Chopin, Kate | 1850 | 1904 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
63540 (158) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.8 | 67.9 | 7.4 | |
| Details | Common Sense | Paine, Thomas | 1737 | 1809 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 16000 |
21504 (53) |
31.1 | 1.55 | 18.1 | 44.2 | 14.8 | |
| Details | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas | 1588 | 1679 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 19000 |
211956 (529) |
34.2 | 1.51 | 19.0 | 44.3 | 15.6 | |
| Details | The Invisible Man | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
47694 (119) |
12.5 | 1.47 | 8.6 | 70.2 | 6.6 | |
| 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 | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | Aesop | Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) | 620BC | 563BC | 2000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 22000 |
41387 (103) |
25.3 | 1.33 | 12.4 | 68.4 | 10.0 |
| Details | The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
274389 (685) |
30.2 | 1.57 | 17.9 | 43.2 | 14.7 | |
| Details | The Antichrist | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) | 1844 (1880) | 1900 (1956) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
32360 (80) |
32.0 | 1.59 | 18.7 | 39.5 | 15.7 |
| Details | Wuthering Heights | Brontë, Emily | 1818 | 1848 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
114539 (286) |
16.9 | 1.46 | 10.6 | 65.8 | 8.3 | |
| Details | The Canterville Ghost | Wilde, Oscar | 1854 | 1900 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
11587 (28) |
26.1 | 1.49 | 14.9 | 54.5 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Steam, Its Generation and Use | Babcock & Wilcox Company | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 15000 | 20000 |
120558 (301) |
9.8 | 1.67 | 10.7 | 56.0 | 7.9 | |||
| Details | The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with l | Gibbon, Edward | 1737 | 1794 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 18000 |
10194 (25) |
7.3 | 1.75 | 11.5 | 51.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
68147 (170) |
17.8 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 74.2 | 7.3 | |
| Details | A Summer's Outing and The Old Man's Story | Harrison, Carter H. | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
66474 (166) |
18.5 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.2 | 9.0 | |||
| Details | The Game of Logic | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
13040 (32) |
8.5 | 1.46 | 7.4 | 74.7 | 4.9 | |
| Details | Omnilingual | Piper, H. Beam | 1904 | 1964 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
16172 (40) |
14.5 | 1.52 | 10.4 | 63.4 | 8.0 | |
| Details | Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. | Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) | 1848 | 1929 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
150454 (376) |
32.0 | 1.5 | 17.5 | 47.8 | 14.5 | |
| Details | The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy | James, William | 1842 | 1910 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
99183 (247) |
24.2 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 47.2 | 12.7 | |
| Details | The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
158602 (396) |
15.8 | 1.48 | 10.1 | 66.0 | 8.0 | |
| Details | The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
45835 (114) |
19.7 | 1.67 | 14.9 | 45.4 | 11.8 | |||
| Details | Carmen | Mérimée, Prosper | Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) | 1803 (1853) | 1870 (1936) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 20000 |
23528 (58) |
15.7 | 1.43 | 9.4 | 69.8 | 7.4 |
| Details | Amerigo Vespucci | Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) | 1849 | 1913 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 13000 | 20000 |
55391 (138) |
29.6 | 1.56 | 17.8 | 45.1 | 14.3 | |
| Details | A Short History of the World | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
111386 (278) |
20.1 | 1.68 | 15.2 | 44.4 | 12.1 | |
| Details | Prufrock and Other Observations | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) | 1888 | 1965 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 12000 | 19000 |
3812 (9) |
24.3 | 1.44 | 12.9 | 60.7 | 10.8 | |
| 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 | 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 | North and South | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn | 1810 | 1865 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 17000 |
179050 (447) |
16.8 | 1.41 | 10.0 | 70.3 | 7.6 | |
| 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 | An Imperial Marriage | Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) | 1852 | 1923 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 10000 | 13000 | 21000 |
94091 (235) |
14.1 | 1.4 | 8.7 | 73.9 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Smoke | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich | Garnett, Constance | 1818 (1861) | 1883 (1946) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
64820 (162) |
18.1 | 1.52 | 12.2 | 60.0 | 9.4 |
| Details | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets | Crane, Stephen | 1871 | 1900 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 10000 | 12000 | 18000 |
22287 (55) |
11.7 | 1.47 | 8.3 | 70.5 | 6.3 | |
| 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 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 | Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples | Brown, Frank Chouteau | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 22000 |
20014 (50) |
10.1 | 1.75 | 11.9 | 48.1 | 9.1 | |||
| Details | The Bontoc Igorot | Jenks, Albert Ernest | 1869 | 1953 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 19000 |
103603 (259) |
22.1 | 1.53 | 13.3 | 55.2 | 11.0 | |
| Details | The Book of Tea | Okakura, Kakuzo | 1862 | 1913 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 19000 |
17957 (44) |
19.4 | 1.61 | 13.7 | 51.2 | 10.9 | |
| Details | Walking | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 10000 | 14000 | 17000 |
12032 (30) |
24.9 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 56.1 | 11.6 | |
| 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 | My Reminiscences | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1861 | 1941 | 3000 | 4000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 | 22000 |
60224 (150) |
20.0 | 1.51 | 12.6 | 58.7 | 10.1 | |
| Details | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims | La Rochefoucauld, François duc de | Willis Bund, J. W. (John William) | 1613 (1843) | 1680 (1928) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 12000 | 17000 |
34123 (85) |
16.4 | 1.53 | 11.9 | 61.2 | 8.8 |
| Details | The Grand Inquisitor | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) | 1821 (1831) | 1881 (1891) | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 10000 | 11000 | 15000 |
9588 (23) |
25.6 | 1.46 | 14.5 | 57.7 | 11.6 |
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.