The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 vs Crime and Punishment
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
1,474words between them — 6 min of it
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 is longer — 205,279 words against 203,805 for Crime and Punishment, a difference of 1,474 words or about 6 min of extra reading. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 is the harder read, at grade 9.8 against 6.8.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 | Crime and Punishment | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
| Words | 205,279 | 203,805 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 13h 41m | 13h 35m |
| Unique words | 15,029 | 10,258 |
| Sentences | 10,085 | 13,104 |
| Average sentence length | 20.4 words | 15.6 words |
| Reading grade | 9.8 | 6.8 |
| Reading ease | 61.3 | 73.9 |
| Long words | 11.3% | 9.1% |
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 = |205,279 − 203,805| = 1,474 words 1,474 ÷ 250 wpm = 6 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 or Crime and Punishment?
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 is longer — 205,279 words against 203,805 for Crime and Punishment, a difference of 1,474 words or about 6 min of extra reading. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 is the harder read, at grade 9.8 against 6.8.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 22010 and no. 2554 — 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.
