Table 1. Characteristics of the books analyzed.
The length of each book L is measured in millions of tokens.
| Title | Author | Language | Year | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarissa 1 | Samuel Richardson | English | 1748 | 0.976 |
| Moby-Dick 2 | Herman Melville | English | 1851 | 0.215 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | English | 1918 | 0.269 |
| Don Quijote 3 | Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish | 1605 | 0.381 |
| La Regenta | L. Alas “Clarín” | Spanish | 1884 | 0.308 |
| Artamène 4 | Scudéry siblings 9 | French | 1649 | 2.088 |
| Le Vicomte de Bragelonne 5 | A. Dumas (father) | French | 1847 | 0.699 |
| Seitsemän veljestä 6 | Aleksis Kivi | Finnish | 1870 | 0.081 |
| Kevät ja takatalvi 7 | Juhani Aho | Finnish | 1906 | 0.114 |
| Vanhempieni romaani 8 | Arvid Järnefelt | Finnish | 1928 | 0.136 |
1Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady.
2Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
3El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1605)—The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (title in English); including second part: El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha (1615).
4Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus—Artamène, or Cyrus the Great.
5Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard—The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
6Seven Brothers.
7Spring and the Untimely Return of Winter.
8The Story of my Parents.
9Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry.