My Recollections of Lord Byron vs Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
3,679words between them — 15 min of it
My Recollections of Lord Byron is longer — 252,542 words against 248,863 for Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical, a difference of 3,679 words or about 15 min of extra reading. My Recollections of Lord Byron is the harder read, at grade 13.8 against 9.7.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| My Recollections of Lord Byron | Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di | Atherton, William H. (William Henry) |
| Words | 252,542 | 248,863 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 16h 50m | 16h 35m |
| Unique words | 14,651 | 12,459 |
| Sentences | 8,100 | 14,812 |
| Average sentence length | 31.2 words | 16.8 words |
| Reading grade | 13.8 | 9.7 |
| Reading ease | 51.4 | 55.1 |
| Long words | 11.3% | 16.3% |
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 = |252,542 − 248,863| = 3,679 words 3,679 ÷ 250 wpm = 15 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, My Recollections of Lord Byron or Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical?
My Recollections of Lord Byron is longer — 252,542 words against 248,863 for Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical, a difference of 3,679 words or about 15 min of extra reading. My Recollections of Lord Byron is the harder read, at grade 13.8 against 9.7.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 25977 and no. 48480 — 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.
