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According to Guinness World Records, as of 2023, World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd is the thickest book ever to have been physically produced, with a page count of 100,100. [3] Guinness also credits Shree Haricharitramrut Sagar as being the longest book to ever be published with a page count of 10,080 ...
A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume. [1] [2] [3] A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs ...
Les Hommes de bonne volonté (transl. Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel and, at two million words and 7,892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written.
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. [1] She described the theme of Atlas Shrugged as "the role of man's mind in existence" and it includes elements of science fiction, mystery and ...
Madison Alexander Cooper, Jr., (June 3, 1894 – September 28, 1956) was an American businessman and philanthropist from Waco, Texas, who is best remembered for his long novel Sironia, Texas [1] (), which made publishing history at that time as the longest novel in English originally published in book form, in two volumes totaling 1,731 pages, [1] and containing an estimated 840,000 words.
The book won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award. [1] Sironia is widely thought to be a thinly disguised version of Cooper's hometown of Waco, Texas. The book contains over 1,700 pages, making it one of the longest novels in the English language. [2] Written over a period of 11 years, [1] it was published in 1952. [2]
Let’s start by just agreeing that the uncut version of King’s longest novel is the best. The 400 pages he added back in take the novel to over 1300 pages in paperback, but they are necessary ...
It is considered one of the longest novels in the English language (based on estimated word count). It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. Picture from "Lettres angloises, ou histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove" (1751) In 2015, the BBC ranked Clarissa 14th on its list of the 100 greatest British novels. [1]