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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 Black Riders and Other Lines Crane, Stephen 1871 1900 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 3953
    (9)
    11.7 1.36 6.7 80.3 5.0
    Details Modern Essays Beerbohm, Max, Sir 1872 1956 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 83522
    (208)
    20.8 1.53 13.1 56.3 10.6
    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 The History of The Hen Fever A Humorous Record Burnham, George P. 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 66073
    (165)
    17.7 1.54 11.9 58.9 9.5
    Details Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature James, William 1842 1910 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 183540
    (458)
    24.9 1.6 16.0 46.6 12.9
    Details A Watcher in The Woods Sharp, Dallas Lore 1870 1929 2000 5000 8000 10000 14000 22000 30932
    (77)
    20.5 1.42 10.9 65.8 9.2
    Details Thuvia, Maid of Mars Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875 1950 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 24000 46927
    (117)
    15.8 1.46 10.3 67.0 7.8
    Details The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886 1959 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 240707
    (601)
    19.2 1.43 11.1 66.2 8.8
    Details Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Abbott, Edwin Abbott 1838 1926 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 17000 33286
    (83)
    24.8 1.57 15.5 48.5 12.7
    Details The King in Yellow Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1865 1933 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 20000 71137
    (177)
    15.5 1.46 9.6 68.0 7.6
    Details Line and Form (1900) Crane, Walter 1845 1915 3000 4000 7000 10000 13000 19000 44073
    (110)
    32.9 1.64 19.6 34.8 16.6
    Details Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World Swift, Jonathan 1667 1745 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 51555
    (128)
    28.8 1.5 16.0 50.9 13.3
    Details The Gully of Bluemansdyke And Other stories Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 1859 1930 2000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 48890
    (122)
    17.0 1.45 10.3 66.8 8.2
    Details The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology t Mac 1843 1925 3000 4000 7000 10000 14000 17000 23934
    (59)
    18.0 1.54 12.5 58.3 9.6
    Details Aesop's Fables Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 12261
    (30)
    19.3 1.3 9.7 77.1 7.3
    Details The Oxford Book of American Essays 3000 4000 8000 10000 13000 19000 161947
    (404)
    24.8 1.55 15.1 50.8 12.3
    Details Something New Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881 1975 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 17000 73645
    (184)
    12.8 1.47 9.1 69.9 6.7
    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 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 Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa Ryder, Arthur W. (Arthur William) (1877) (1938) 3000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 61590
    (153)
    14.2 1.49 9.7 66.8 7.5
    Details An Elementary Study of Insects Haseman, Leonard 1884 1969 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 23000 17942
    (44)
    17.6 1.45 10.7 66.5 8.4
    Details Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 2000 4000 7000 10000 14000 24000 70188
    (175)
    20.5 1.48 12.3 61.1 9.8
    Details Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume, David 1711 1776 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 18000 35903
    (89)
    29.4 1.66 19.0 36.4 15.5
    Details Theresa Raquin Zola, Émile Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred 1840 (1853) 1902 (1922) 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 16000 70860
    (177)
    17.4 1.49 11.4 62.8 8.8
    Details Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas Custer, Elizabeth B. 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 19000 136367
    (340)
    27.0 1.49 15.2 53.3 12.5
    Details New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginnin Various 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 130202
    (325)
    23.1 1.58 15.0 49.8 12.0
    Details Tom Wallis A Tale of the South Seas Becke, Louis 1855 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 18000 66427
    (166)
    21.6 1.39 11.4 67.0 9.3
    Details True Bear Stories Miller, Joaquin 1837 1913 2000 4000 7000 10000 11000 19000 42215
    (105)
    21.2 1.4 11.4 66.9 9.2
    Details The War in the Air Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866 1946 3000 5000 7000 10000 12000 19000 96478
    (241)
    16.1 1.51 10.9 62.4 8.5
    Details Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 2000 4000 8000 11000 12000 17000 156033
    (390)
    16.9 1.46 10.6 66.5 8.2
    Details Demonology and Devil-lore Conway, Moncure Daniel 1832 1907 3000 6000 9000 11000 14000 21000 259586
    (648)
    23.5 1.56 14.8 51.0 12.0
    Details The Art of War Sunzi Giles, Lionel (1875) (1958) 3000 4000 8000 11000 15000 22000 52452
    (131)
    18.1 1.52 12.6 59.5 9.5
    Details The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 3000 5000 9000 11000 14000 21000 93549
    (233)
    22.4 1.57 14.4 51.3 11.7
    Details A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James 1882 1941 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 84537
    (211)
    15.8 1.41 9.3 71.2 7.2
    Details The Social Cancer Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 173896
    (434)
    17.9 1.52 12.1 60.3 9.3
    Details Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave Aveling, Eleanor Marx 1821 (1855) 1880 (1898) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 115415
    (288)
    16.6 1.45 10.4 66.9 8.1
    Details Through the Looking-Glass Carroll, Lewis 1832 1898 2000 3000 7000 11000 15000 24000 28873
    (72)
    14.1 1.36 7.7 77.5 6.0
    Details The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 4000 6000 9000 11000 13000 19000 82835
    (207)
    23.3 1.53 14.2 54.0 11.5
    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 Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 1819 1892 4000 6000 9000 11000 14000 22000 120543
    (301)
    33.2 1.46 16.8 49.9 14.6
    Details The Call of the Wild London, Jack 1876 1916 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 23000 31797
    (79)
    18.7 1.39 10.4 69.9 8.1
    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 The Iliad Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 152112
    (380)
    31.0 1.35 15.0 61.5 12.4
    Details The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821) (1890) 2000 4000 8000 11000 15000 23000 58153
    (145)
    21.3 1.49 12.9 59.1 10.3
    Details Adventures of Pinocchio Collodi, Carlo Della Chiesa, Carol 1826 (1887) 1890 2000 3000 6000 11000 14000 17000 39730
    (99)
    12.2 1.37 7.5 78.3 5.4
    Details Myths and Legends of China Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) 1864 1954 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 117310
    (293)
    21.9 1.52 13.6 55.8 10.9
    Details El Filibusterismo. English Rizal, José Derbyshire, Charles E. 1861 1896 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 21000 113914
    (284)
    19.9 1.55 13.4 55.5 10.5
    Details Candide Voltaire 1694 1778 3000 5000 8000 11000 15000 21000 35400
    (88)
    18.0 1.5 11.7 61.4 9.2
    Details Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 72871
    (182)
    22.0 1.53 13.8 54.7 11.1
    Details Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Pe Jacob, P. L. 1806 1884 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 21000 155617
    (389)
    29.5 1.61 18.2 40.7 14.9

    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.