The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 vs Dracula
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
772words between them — 3 min of it
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 is longer — 161,489 words against 160,717 for Dracula, a difference of 772 words or about 3 min of extra reading. The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 is the harder read, at grade 10.9 against 7.5.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 | Dracula | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John) | Stoker, Bram |
| Words | 161,489 | 160,717 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 10h 46m | 10h 43m |
| Unique words | 11,257 | 10,254 |
| Sentences | 6,727 | 7,839 |
| Average sentence length | 24 words | 20.5 words |
| Reading grade | 10.9 | 7.5 |
| Reading ease | 60 | 77.8 |
| Long words | 10.4% | 5.5% |
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 = |161,489 − 160,717| = 772 words 772 ÷ 250 wpm = 3 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 or Dracula?
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 is longer — 161,489 words against 160,717 for Dracula, a difference of 772 words or about 3 min of extra reading. The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 is the harder read, at grade 10.9 against 7.5.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 26416 and no. 345 — 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.
