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Jun 6, 2018 · Rated the longest novel ever by the Guinness Book of World Records, there’s no doubt that Proust’s masterpiece could quite easily double up as a mightily effective doorstop, with 13 volumes clocking up nearly 1.3 million words. Its theme of involuntary memory is repeated through the course of following the narrator’s life, from childhood ...
Longest novel. A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters (each letter counts as one character. Spaces are also counted, as one character each). The title translates to "Remembrance of Things Past".
Sep 22, 2022 · At 21,450 Pages, the Longest Book in the World Is Impossible to Read. Ilan Manouach’s conceptual art project weighs 37.5 pounds and measures 31.5 inches long
Nov 23, 2022 · However, according to the Guinness World Records, A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is officially the longest book in the world. Here we take a closer look at Marcel Proust’s tremendous tome.
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- A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. See on Amazon. Number of words: 184,000. Number of pages: 736. Anthony Powell received tons of critical acclaim upon his release of A Dance to the Music of Time.
- Ulysses by James Joyce. See on Amazon. Number of words: 265,000. Number of pages: 735. Irish writer James Joyce wrote Ulysses as a modernist novel and serialized it at first.
- Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young. See on Amazon. Number of words: 299,500. Number of pages: 1,198. Marguerite Young began writing Miss MacIntosh, My Darling in 1947 and released it in 1965.
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. See on Amazon. Number of words: 483,994. Number of pages: 1,079. This book’s unconventional narrative structure utilizes hundreds of endnotes and footnotes.
Mar 13, 2023 · Clocking in at 1.3 million words and 9.6 million characters, Marcel Proust's novel 'In Search of Lost Time' is the world's longest book, according to Guinness World Records.
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Oct 17, 2019 · “Marienbad My Love” is the world’s longest novel, a multi-million-word, multiple-volume work meticulously assembled through calculation and chance from fragments of pre-existing texts both written and appropriated by Mark Leach over the course of 30 years – “the movie,” as Leach calls it, “of all my labours and all my inspirations
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