Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

At a glance

1893 novel by Ingersoll Lockwood.

Author

Ingersoll Lockwood1841–1918

First published

1893

Original language

English

Genre

Fantasy

Readers

Middle grade

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 39 min at 250 words a minute, or 7 h 30 min as an audiobook.

Compared with other books

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Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

Words in the text

69,678

Chapters

64about 1,089 words each

Dialogue

25%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

31.6 words

Vocabulary

438 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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