Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete vs A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
14,160words between them — 57 min of it
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete is longer — 423,474 words against 409,314 for A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, a difference of 14,160 words or about 57 min of extra reading. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is the harder read, at grade 16.7 against 10.3.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete | A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de | Mill, John Stuart |
| Words | 423,474 | 409,314 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 28h 14m | 27h 17m |
| Unique words | 14,859 | 12,329 |
| Sentences | 17,966 | 11,677 |
| Average sentence length | 23.6 words | 35.1 words |
| Reading grade | 10.3 | 16.7 |
| Reading ease | 63.2 | 37.8 |
| Long words | 9.5% | 16.6% |
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 = |423,474 − 409,314| = 14,160 words 14,160 ÷ 250 wpm = 57 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete or A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive?
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete is longer — 423,474 words against 409,314 for A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, a difference of 14,160 words or about 57 min of extra reading. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is the harder read, at grade 16.7 against 10.3.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 3875 and no. 27942 — 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.
