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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
9601 (24) |
15.3 | 1.37 | 8.2 | 75.3 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Anne's House of Dreams | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
78051 (195) |
13.7 | 1.4 | 8.2 | 74.6 | 6.3 | |
| Details | Orthodoxy | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | 1874 | 1936 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
63665 (159) |
20.1 | 1.53 | 13.0 | 57.2 | 10.3 | |
| Details | Poetics. English | Aristotle | Bywater, Ingram | 384BC (1840) | 322BC (1914) | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
18459 (46) |
26.1 | 1.54 | 16.2 | 49.9 | 12.8 |
| Details | The Valley of Fear | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
57012 (142) |
13.3 | 1.41 | 8.6 | 74.3 | 6.2 | |
| Details | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
111491 (278) |
14.1 | 1.44 | 9.1 | 71.0 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook | Montessori, Maria | 1870 | 1952 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
24376 (60) |
22.4 | 1.54 | 14.6 | 53.4 | 11.4 | |
| Details | The Marvelous Land of Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
42055 (105) |
15.4 | 1.46 | 10.1 | 67.7 | 7.6 | |
| Details | Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates | Plato | Cary, Henry | 427BC (1804) | 347BC (1870) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 20000 |
51647 (129) |
21.7 | 1.45 | 13.1 | 62.5 | 9.9 |
| Details | The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories | Tolstoy, Leo, graf | Tucker, Benjamin R. | 1828 | 1910 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
63962 (159) |
17.1 | 1.47 | 11.0 | 65.1 | 8.4 |
| 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 | The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics | Laozi | Legge, James | (1815) | (1897) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
10365 (25) |
13.8 | 1.41 | 9.4 | 73.7 | 6.4 |
| Details | The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths | Colum, Padraic | 1881 | 1972 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
65423 (163) |
15.9 | 1.3 | 7.8 | 80.6 | 6.0 | |
| 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 | Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary De | -Buckelew, Sarah F. (Sarah Frances) | 1835 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
24947 (62) |
12.8 | 1.38 | 7.9 | 76.9 | 5.7 | ||
| Details | Daddy-Long-Legs | Webster, Jean | 1876 | 1916 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
36296 (90) |
14.5 | 1.47 | 9.3 | 67.5 | 7.5 | |
| Details | Beyond Lies the Wub | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 13000 |
2682 (6) |
6.6 | 1.4 | 5.5 | 81.6 | 3.5 | |
| Details | Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship | Jack, George | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
40537 (101) |
22.7 | 1.56 | 14.4 | 51.9 | 11.7 | |||
| Details | Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm | Grimm, Wilhelm | Crane, Lucy | 1786 (1842) | 1859 (1882) | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
88523 (221) |
22.3 | 1.28 | 10.5 | 75.7 | 8.2 |
| Details | The Career of Katherine Bush | Glyn, Elinor | 1864 | 1943 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 19000 |
105388 (263) |
17.8 | 1.46 | 11.2 | 65.4 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War | Saussure, Mrs. N. B. de | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
16693 (41) |
22.3 | 1.47 | 13.0 | 59.5 | 10.5 | |||
| Details | The Old Road | Belloc, Hilaire | 1870 | 1953 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
54235 (135) |
27.0 | 1.48 | 15.1 | 54.2 | 12.4 | |
| Details | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself | Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) | 1813 | 1897 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
82835 (207) |
16.2 | 1.43 | 10.0 | 69.8 | 7.5 | |
| Details | The Pursuit of God | Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson) | 1897 | 1963 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
29000 (72) |
19.4 | 1.44 | 11.6 | 65.4 | 9.0 | |
| Details | The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Younges | Various | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
8003 (20) |
13.2 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 74.8 | 6.1 | |||
| Details | Précis de l'art de la guerre. English | Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de | Mendell, George H. (George Henry) | 1779 (1831) | 1869 (1902) | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 17000 |
139359 (348) |
21.4 | 1.63 | 15.5 | 46.9 | 12.0 |
| Details | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 | Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) | 1840 | 1914 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
206172 (515) |
29.9 | 1.59 | 18.0 | 41.9 | 14.8 | |
| Details | Civil Disobedience | Thoreau, Henry David | 1817 | 1862 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
9251 (23) |
26.4 | 1.5 | 15.2 | 53.5 | 12.3 | |
| 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 | The Connexion Between Taste and Morals Two lectures | Hopkins, Mark | 1802 | 1887 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
15404 (38) |
32.4 | 1.55 | 18.6 | 43.2 | 15.3 | |
| Details | In the Year 2889 | Verne, Jules | 1828 | 1905 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 18000 |
5492 (13) |
13.1 | 1.57 | 11.0 | 60.7 | 8.0 | |
| Details | The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and | Mc | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 18000 |
63686 (159) |
20.7 | 1.51 | 13.1 | 58.4 | 10.3 | |||
| Details | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 1849 | 1924 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
79765 (199) |
13.2 | 1.35 | 7.4 | 78.9 | 5.5 | |
| Details | The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories | Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) | 1881 | 1975 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 21000 |
70421 (176) |
12.3 | 1.41 | 7.9 | 75.2 | 5.8 | |
| Details | The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners | Ruskin, John | 1819 | 1900 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
72573 (181) |
29.6 | 1.47 | 16.0 | 52.7 | 13.3 | |
| Details | The Story of Mankind | Van Loon, Hendrik Willem | 1882 | 1944 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
128493 (321) |
21.3 | 1.56 | 14.0 | 53.3 | 11.1 | |
| Details | The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1 | Garis, Cleo | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
50450 (126) |
11.0 | 1.43 | 7.5 | 75.1 | 5.5 | |||
| Details | John Deere's Steel Plow | Kendall, Edward C. | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
5509 (13) |
17.7 | 1.53 | 12.1 | 59.4 | 9.4 | |||
| 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 | The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of | Thérèse, de Lisieux, Sainte | Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) | 1873 (1873) | 1897 (1963) | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
104435 (261) |
20.1 | 1.43 | 11.4 | 65.5 | 9.1 |
| Details | The Eyes Have It | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 4000 | 5000 | 8000 | 9000 | 12000 |
1120 (2) |
9.8 | 1.53 | 8.5 | 67.8 | 6.2 | |
| Details | Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face | Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) | 1905 | 2002 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 13000 |
35128 (87) |
9.9 | 1.44 | 7.8 | 74.7 | 5.3 | |
| Details | Pollyanna | Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) | 1868 | 1920 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 14000 |
54339 (135) |
11.6 | 1.4 | 7.8 | 76.5 | 5.5 | |
| Details | An Enemy of the People | Ibsen, Henrik | Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) | 1828 (1864) | 1906 (1945) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
30158 (75) |
8.8 | 1.45 | 6.7 | 75.2 | 5.0 |
| Details | The Good Soldier | Ford, Ford Madox | 1873 | 1939 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
74336 (185) |
19.0 | 1.45 | 11.3 | 65.2 | 8.9 | |
| 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 Mystery of Jockey Hollow Arden Blake Mystery Series #2 | Garis, Cleo | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 14000 |
45337 (113) |
11.1 | 1.41 | 7.5 | 75.9 | 5.4 | |||
| Details | The Republic | Plato | Jowett, Benjamin | 427BC (1817) | 347BC (1893) | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
124102 (310) |
22.4 | 1.45 | 13.2 | 61.6 | 10.2 |
| Details | A Child's History of England | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
161921 (404) |
29.2 | 1.44 | 15.5 | 55.5 | 12.8 | |
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.