Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison vs Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
219words between them — 1 min of it
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison is longer — 136,934 words against 136,715 for Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, a difference of 219 words or about 1 min of extra reading. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison is the harder read, at grade 10.6 against 10.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison | Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Bidwell, Austin | Bernstein, Aaron |
| Words | 136,934 | 136,715 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 9h 08m | 9h 07m |
| Unique words | 11,506 | 12,591 |
| Sentences | 5,508 | 6,849 |
| Average sentence length | 24.9 words | 20 words |
| Reading grade | 10.6 | 10 |
| Reading ease | 63.6 | 59 |
| Long words | 8.9% | 12.3% |
Highlighted cells are the larger figure — except reading ease, where higher means easier.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions, same counting rule·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both texts are counted the same way, from the same source, with Gutenberg's header and licence footer struck first.
- The gap is stated in words and then in time at 250 words a minute — the rate is printed because a duration without one cannot be checked.
- Difficulty is compared on Flesch–Kincaid grade, which reads sentence and word length only. It cannot see irony or dialect, so treat it as a measure of surface, not of effort.
gap = |136,934 − 136,715| = 219 words 219 ÷ 250 wpm = 1 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison or Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ?
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison is longer — 136,934 words against 136,715 for Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, a difference of 219 words or about 1 min of extra reading. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison is the harder read, at grade 10.6 against 10.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 24739 and no. 37734 — and from no other source. Neither book’s text is set on this site.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·US public domain·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Word counts and reading levels are computed from a specific public-domain edition and will differ from other editions and from other counting methods — see the method page.
