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For example, À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust and Artamène by Madeleine de Scudéry (and/or) Georges de Scudéry, both titles which span over several volumes, are regarded by some sources as the longest novels ever written. [7] Single-volume books with page counts exceeding 2,000 pages exist for a plethora of different reasons ...
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.
With 1168 pages in the first edition, Atlas Shrugged is Rand's longest published book. [38] Random House published the novel on October 10, 1957. The initial print run was 100,000 copies. The first paperback edition was published by New American Library in July 1959, with an initial run of 150,000. [39]
With 26 volumes and 22,400 pages, Venmurasu is considered one of the longest novels ever published. [2] Jeyamohan stated that he began writing the work in January 2014, and planned to continue writing it every day for over ten years. The book was completed in 2020, spanning 26 volumes and 26,000 pages. [3] [4]
Often homeless, he claimed to be the author of the longest book ever written, An Oral History of the Contemporary World, also known as An Oral History of Our Time or Meo Tempore. He inspired the book Joe Gould's Secret (1965) by Joseph Mitchell, and its film adaptation (2000), and is a character in the 2009 computer game The Blackwell Convergence.
The title pages credit the work to French writer Georges de Scudéry, but it is usually attributed to his sister and fellow writer Madeleine. At 1,954,300 words, [1] it is considered one of the longest novels ever published. "Scudery’s major classical references and source-material comes from Herodotus’ Histories and Xenophon's Cyropaedia.
Uber driver Janis Rogers is now a world record holder -- and one woman's hero. She picked up a rider in Virginia and drove her nearly eight hours and 400 miles to Brooklyn, according to the New ...
He was the first American writer to leave two complete, unpublished novels in the hands of his publisher at death. [34] Two Wolfe novels, The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again, were edited posthumously by Edward Aswell of Harper & Brothers. The novels were "two of the longest one-volume novels ever written" (nearly 700 pages each). [34]