Linnet vs Henrietta Temple
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
21words between them — 0 min of it
Linnet is longer — 142,800 words against 142,779 for Henrietta Temple, a difference of 21 words or about 0 min of extra reading. Linnet is the harder read, at grade 8.5 against 8.2.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| Linnet | Henrietta Temple | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Allen, Grant | Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield |
| Words | 142,800 | 142,779 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 9h 31m | 9h 31m |
| Unique words | 11,760 | 9,329 |
| Sentences | 7,123 | 8,061 |
| Average sentence length | 20 words | 17.7 words |
| Reading grade | 8.5 | 8.2 |
| Reading ease | 70 | 67.8 |
| Long words | 8.4% | 10.4% |
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 = |142,800 − 142,779| = 21 words 21 ÷ 250 wpm = 0 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, Linnet or Henrietta Temple?
Linnet is longer — 142,800 words against 142,779 for Henrietta Temple, a difference of 21 words or about 0 min of extra reading. Linnet is the harder read, at grade 8.5 against 8.2.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 48296 and no. 19771 — 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.
