Royal Edinburgh vs Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
1words between them — 0 min of it
Royal Edinburgh is longer — 158,596 words against 158,595 for Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840, a difference of 1 words or about 0 min of extra reading. Royal Edinburgh is the harder read, at grade 18 against 9.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| Royal Edinburgh | Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) | Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de |
| Words | 158,596 | 158,595 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 10h 34m | 10h 34m |
| Unique words | 13,239 | 11,130 |
| Sentences | 3,758 | 8,689 |
| Average sentence length | 42.2 words | 18.3 words |
| Reading grade | 18 | 9 |
| Reading ease | 41 | 63 |
| Long words | 11.3% | 12.2% |
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 = |158,596 − 158,595| = 1 words 1 ÷ 250 wpm = 0 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, Royal Edinburgh or Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840?
Royal Edinburgh is longer — 158,596 words against 158,595 for Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840, a difference of 1 words or about 0 min of extra reading. Royal Edinburgh is the harder read, at grade 18 against 9.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 25701 and no. 44646 — 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.
