# Under the Red Dragon

Under the Red Dragon by James Grant has 151,207 words.

## At a glance

1872 novel by James Grant.

- **Author:** [James Grant](https://musael.com/books/authors/james-grant.md) (1822–1887)
- **First published:** 1872
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 151,207
- **Reading time:** 10 h 5 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 16 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 36 min | 26 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 5 min | 21 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 24 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

Under the Red Dragon is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53874

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 151,207
- Chapters: 61
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 26.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53874 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124091108
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29426487W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53874

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/under-the-red-dragon