# The Grain Ship

The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson has 60,075 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Morgan Robertson](https://musael.com/books/authors/morgan-robertson.md) (1861–1915)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 60,075
- **Reading time:** 4 h (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 28 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 20 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Grain Ship is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26194

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 60,075
- Dialogue: 69% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26194 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2344485W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26194

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-grain-ship