| Text | Vocabulary size | Length in words | Length in sentences | Number of frequent words |
| Carroll | 1848 | 8191 | 1098 | 10 |
| Twain | 5981 | 25,682 | 4288 | 46 |
| Austen | 4643 | 39,590 | 5523 | 136 |
| Tolstoy | 14,555 | 212,483 | 28,432 | 797 |
| Melville | 14,413 | 85,557 | 8556 | 237 |
| Darwin | 5316 | 58,611 | 3991 | 212 |
| Einstein | 1893 | 11,642 | 963 | 24 |
| Lavoisier | 3841 | 42,417 | 3029 | 155 |
| Freud | 4006 | 19,533 | 1828 | 30 |
| Smith | 6817 | 140,905 | 11,318 | 537 |
| Kant | 5792 | 75,285 | 5715 | 289 |
| Plato | 5400 | 35,491 | 4468 | 103 |