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 Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put | Riley, Harvey | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 19000 |
28496 (71) |
21.3 | 1.43 | 12.1 | 64.4 | 9.6 | |||
| Details | The Diva's Ruby | Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) | 1854 | 1909 | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
115276 (288) |
18.3 | 1.42 | 10.9 | 67.9 | 8.3 | |
| Details | A Young Girl's Diary | Anonymous | Paul, Eden | (1865) | (1944) | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 8000 | 13000 | 15000 |
87209 (218) |
15.5 | 1.39 | 8.9 | 73.6 | 6.9 |
| 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 | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Richardson, Samuel | 1689 | 1761 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 12000 | 17000 |
221156 (552) |
26.6 | 1.37 | 13.2 | 63.7 | 11.0 | |
| Details | Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | West, Julius | 1860 (1891) | 1904 (1918) | 2000 | 3000 | 5000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
66807 (167) |
9.8 | 1.46 | 7.6 | 73.3 | 5.5 |
| Details | Of Human Bondage | Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) | 1874 | 1965 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
258577 (646) |
15.5 | 1.42 | 9.6 | 70.9 | 7.2 | |
| Details | The Blue Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew | 1844 | 1912 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
138225 (345) |
24.9 | 1.35 | 12.4 | 67.7 | 10.0 | |
| Details | History of the United States | Beard, Mary Ritter | 1876 | 1958 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
199929 (499) |
18.8 | 1.71 | 15.4 | 42.7 | 12.0 | |
| Details | Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 | Bellamy, Edward | 1850 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
77522 (193) |
24.0 | 1.55 | 15.1 | 51.1 | 12.1 | |
| 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 | Japanese Fairy Tales | Ozaki, Yei Theodora | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
70489 (176) |
20.6 | 1.36 | 10.9 | 70.7 | 8.5 | |||
| Details | British Political Leaders | Mc | 1830 | 1912 | 3000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
63507 (158) |
29.9 | 1.61 | 18.3 | 40.3 | 15.1 | |
| Details | The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession | Wayburn, Ned | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 18000 |
108666 (271) |
22.1 | 1.55 | 14.4 | 53.4 | 11.3 | |||
| Details | The Frontier in American History | Turner, Frederick Jackson | 1861 | 1932 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 16000 |
112204 (280) |
24.6 | 1.7 | 17.3 | 38.2 | 14.0 | |
| Details | Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book after | Carroll, Lewis | 1832 | 1898 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 14000 | 21000 |
15023 (37) |
18.5 | 1.37 | 9.7 | 71.8 | 7.8 | |
| Details | Lulu's Library, Volume I (of 3) | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
50272 (125) |
19.9 | 1.33 | 9.5 | 74.4 | 7.8 | |
| Details | As a Man Thinketh | Allen, James | 1864 | 1912 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 15000 |
7517 (18) |
26.6 | 1.56 | 16.3 | 47.6 | 13.2 | |
| Details | The Variable Man | Dick, Philip K. | 1928 | 1982 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 9000 | 18000 |
24824 (62) |
7.8 | 1.51 | 7.4 | 71.3 | 5.3 | |
| Details | A Dash .. .. .. For a Throne | Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) | 1852 | 1923 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
96732 (241) |
17.1 | 1.41 | 10.0 | 70.0 | 7.7 | |
| Details | Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 | Vogel, Robert M. | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 16000 |
12934 (32) |
20.1 | 1.73 | 15.8 | 40.1 | 12.7 | |||
| Details | Another Summer The Yellowstone Park and Alaska | Gillis, Charles J. | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 10000 | 15000 |
10605 (26) |
21.6 | 1.5 | 13.0 | 57.8 | 10.6 | |||
| Details | Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories; Second Series | Nicholson, Meredith | 1866 | 1947 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 8000 | 11000 | 17000 |
117496 (293) |
14.9 | 1.45 | 9.5 | 68.9 | 7.3 | |
| Details | Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 19000 |
142729 (356) |
20.7 | 1.47 | 12.0 | 61.4 | 9.8 | |
| 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 | Tales of Folk and Fairies | Pyle, Katharine | 1863 | 1938 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
54127 (135) |
17.5 | 1.29 | 8.6 | 79.7 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | 1835 | 1911 | 1000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 20000 |
110968 (277) |
42.0 | 1.3 | 18.2 | 54.1 | 16.2 | |
| Details | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) | 1859 | 1927 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
66360 (165) |
19.8 | 1.39 | 10.6 | 69.4 | 8.5 | |
| Details | 2 B R 0 2 B | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1922 | 2007 | 2000 | 3000 | 7000 | 9000 | 10000 | 14000 |
2501 (6) |
9.4 | 1.46 | 7.5 | 74.1 | 5.3 | |
| Details | The Sign of the Four | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
42939 (107) |
14.7 | 1.42 | 9.0 | 71.6 | 6.9 | |
| 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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | 1811 | 1896 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
180196 (450) |
17.2 | 1.42 | 10.1 | 69.0 | 7.9 | |
| Details | The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the | Homer | Butler, Samuel | 750BC (1835) | 650BC (1902) | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 21000 |
128461 (321) |
28.9 | 1.35 | 14.4 | 63.1 | 11.6 |
| Details | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Christie, Agatha | 1890 | 1976 | 2000 | 3000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
55542 (138) |
10.2 | 1.49 | 8.5 | 70.3 | 6.0 | |
| Details | A Study in Scarlet | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | 1859 | 1930 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
43598 (108) |
15.8 | 1.46 | 10.2 | 67.2 | 7.8 | |
| Details | A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 22000 |
134550 (336) |
17.3 | 1.44 | 10.5 | 67.2 | 8.2 | |
| Details | A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 15000 |
28431 (71) |
14.6 | 1.39 | 8.6 | 74.4 | 6.5 | |
| Details | Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) | 1874 | 1942 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
101388 (253) |
14.7 | 1.43 | 9.3 | 71.1 | 7.0 | |
| Details | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1850 | 1894 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 17000 |
25369 (63) |
21.3 | 1.44 | 12.1 | 63.3 | 9.7 | |
| Details | Dubliners | Joyce, James | 1882 | 1941 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
66695 (166) |
14.3 | 1.43 | 9.0 | 71.7 | 6.8 | |
| Details | Great Expectations | Dickens, Charles | 1812 | 1870 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
183813 (459) |
18.8 | 1.42 | 10.8 | 67.3 | 8.5 | |
| 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 | Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1832 | 1888 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
185220 (463) |
19.5 | 1.41 | 10.8 | 68.0 | 8.6 | |
| Details | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797 | 1851 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 17000 |
74768 (186) |
22.5 | 1.55 | 14.3 | 52.9 | 11.5 | |
| Details | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Franklin, Benjamin | 1706 | 1790 | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 12000 | 18000 |
65762 (164) |
32.0 | 1.54 | 18.0 | 44.5 | 15.0 | |
| Details | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Boylan, R. Dillon | 1749 | 1832 | 3000 | 4000 | 6000 | 9000 | 11000 | 15000 |
42359 (105) |
17.7 | 1.48 | 11.3 | 63.4 | 8.8 |
| 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 | Second Treatise of Government | Locke, John | 1632 | 1704 | 2000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 12000 | 19000 |
56126 (140) |
33.0 | 1.51 | 18.6 | 45.7 | 15.1 | |
| Details | The War of the Worlds | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 5000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 16000 |
59603 (149) |
18.2 | 1.49 | 11.1 | 62.4 | 9.1 | |
| Details | The Time Machine | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) | 1866 | 1946 | 3000 | 4000 | 7000 | 9000 | 11000 | 18000 |
32111 (80) |
16.8 | 1.5 | 10.8 | 62.6 | 8.7 | |
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.