Under the Witches' Moon vs The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3
Both counted from their full texts, the same way, on the same day.
818words between them — 3 min of it
Under the Witches' Moon is longer — 130,593 words against 129,775 for The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3, a difference of 818 words or about 3 min of extra reading. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 is the harder read, at grade 8.8 against 8.3.
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·both editions counted the same way·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Side by side
| Under the Witches' Moon | The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Gallizier, Nathan | Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron |
| Words | 130,593 | 129,775 |
| Reading time at 250 wpm | 8h 42m | 8h 39m |
| Unique words | 11,702 | 14,812 |
| Sentences | 6,849 | 5,962 |
| Average sentence length | 19.1 words | 21.8 words |
| Reading grade | 8.3 | 8.8 |
| Reading ease | 69.7 | 70.9 |
| Long words | 8.5% | 7% |
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 = |130,593 − 129,775| = 818 words 818 ÷ 250 wpm = 3 min of extra reading
The second question
Which is longer, Under the Witches' Moon or The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3?
Under the Witches' Moon is longer — 130,593 words against 129,775 for The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3, a difference of 818 words or about 3 min of extra reading. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 is the harder read, at grade 8.8 against 8.3.
Colophon
Both figures computed from Project Gutenberg plain-text editions — ebook no. 44827 and no. 21811 — 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.
