# Dainty's Cruel Rivals

Dainty's Cruel Rivals by Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller has 54,251 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller](https://musael.com/books/authors/alex-mcveigh-mrs-miller.md) (1850–1937)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 54,251
- **Reading time:** 3 h 37 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 50 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 31 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 37 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 1 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

Dainty's Cruel Rivals is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31257

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 54,251
- Chapters: 40
- Dialogue: 41% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31257 (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31257

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/daintys-cruel-rivals