World's longest book ever written

It may be a matter of numeric measurement, but thickest doesnt necessarially mean hardest, or even longest. The longest novel ever published was written in the 1600s. If you ever need any previllage joe gould, let me know, she added. A suitable boy by vikram seth which is an amazing piece of literary work and personally i consider his lifes masterpiece is simply magnanimous. He closes his eyes and mouth, covers his face with his hands, and waits to stop rolling. Proust is no match for these two fanfics the daily dot. Its official at 4,032 pages, all resting on a spine over a foot thick, the worlds thickest book is the complete miss marple. A bunch of students in india decided to celebrate their silver jubilee year by allowing everyone to participate in creating and writing this letter, and as you see from the. Its not war and peace by leo tolstoy with 587,287 words. For a full list of record titles, please use our record. There have been some truly massive books written over the years. A confirmed guns n roses fan ever since the release of the seminal appetite for destruction album. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records, theres no doubt that prousts masterpiece could quite easily double up as. Ten of the worlds longest books for reading addicts.

Nigel tomms abstract novel the blah story was begun to publish in the october 2007. Prior to the recent dating of the book to about 800 ad, scholars believed that the book may have been the great gospel of columba, an irish monk from the 6th century. The 25 most challenging books you will ever read if youve made it all the way through any of these, give yourself a pat on the back. In honor of the event, i searched for worlds longest palindrome and found that in 1980, giles selig hales claimed to have written the worlds longest palindrome, which consisted of 58,795 letters. Any fan of stories that involve juicy subjects like adultery, gambling, marriage plots, and, well, russian feudalism, would instantly place anna karenina at the peak of their greatest novels list. Regarded as the longest novel ever written in australia, this book consists of over 850,000 words in total, many times more than even the large compendiums written by such authors as j. The count of monte cristo at 375,695 words and 1,276 pages in the penguin classics english translation is one of the longest books ive read. The 15,145page, singlespaced fantasy manuscript called the story of the vivian girls, in what is known as the realms of the unreal, of the glandecoangelinian war storm, caused by the child slave rebellion by henry joseph darger jr.

All records listed on our website are current and uptodate. The subspace emissarys worlds conquest is currently over 3,500,000 words, making it almost three times as long as marcel prousts seven. Polgara the sorceress is the longest book i have read in english at 754 pages. The longest officially released song is the rise and fall of bossanova a. The second part of his work won international awards as soon as it was published and with them, an international reputation. Its the only book of this list that i have read a little from. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. The previous letter that held that record was a note to santa claus. The longlost story of the longest book ever written. In the world of books where fame and recognition is for better or for worse in the most popular series, there are indeed many literary gems.

Til the longest piece of literature written is an ssbb fanfic that is ongoing and spans 218 chapters with 3. No doubt frank, the number one proust scholar in america from little miss sunshine would have read this even though its 1. After much research, we have found the longest joke in the world. Greta garbo in anna karenina greta garbo in anna karenina 1935, directed by clarence brown. But what is the longest piece of fiction ever written in human history. This war began as a result of conflict between these two individuals, who were also cousins, and their right to rule the kuru kingdom. Yep, that is my summer reading, he replied, glancing down at the 1,088page behemoth of a novel. Either way, it was the best of times, it was the tseb of times, it was a palindromic time.

The longest epic poem ever written is the mahabharata, an ancient indian sanskrit epic. Michael and kelley bostwick beat the current record by more than 10 hours to regain their title. I love a long book that i can really get into, so i decided to compile a list of the longest novels ever written. Thus begins the longest work of fiction ever written. Watch more videos for more knowledge what was the longest book ever written. The title translates to remembrance of things past. As a last ditch attempt, the omnipotent hand used his spacebending powers to recall each one of the smashers to their worlds, back into the past before they participated in the brawl tourney and the war against the subspace army. The english translation is remembrance of things past or in search of lost time.

Traditionally, artamene ou le grand cyrus, has been considered the longest novel, but has lately been surpassed by at least one novel, or two depending on the criterion used to determine length. And thats exactly the ranking that publications like time magazine have. The truth is the longest piece of fiction in the world to dateis a fanfiction. Longest officially released song guinness world records. Meet the college junior behind the longest fan fiction ever. A 500 page penguin classic may be the same length as a page popular fiction book as the printing is so small, and the pages are so thin. I wanted to identify the shortest novel ever written in order to solve a mystery thats been plaguing me. I realize that this longest text ever must be very boring and not worth anyones time. Much of the writing is, in grossmans words, differentiated and obfuscated. The massive volume, a collection of the 12 novels and 20 short. It took up,095 pages spread over 10 volumes, with over two million words, and a french name which is the reason why were not even bothering to write it out for you. I have read two and a half of the 10 most difficult books ever written, as selected by emily colette wilkinson and garth risk hallberg of the millions after three years research. It was inspired by bohumil hrabals dancing lessons for the advanced in age.

And i thought the stand was long its only 1168 pages. America, says hania zlotnik of the united nations population division, is the worlds great demographic outlier. Each stone tablet has its own roof and precious gem on top in a small cavelike structure of sinhalese relic casket type called kyauksa gu stone inscription cave in burmese, and they are arranged. The popular romance of chinese dynasties by cai dongfan. He studies computer science and computer maintenance.

Til the longest piece of literature written is an ssbb. The longest book ever written the longest book ever written is called yongle dadian. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records, theres no doubt that prousts masterpiece could quite easily double up as a mightily effective doorstop, with volumes clocking up nearly 1. And in his spare time, he writes the longest work of fan fiction ever composed. It is the longest japanese novel and also one of the longest ever written. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19. The book of kells or the book of columba, is one of irelands greatest treasures as it is an illuminated manuscript dating back to about 800 ad. Every straining word uttered by axl, and every note beautifully crafted by slash, brims with guts and emotion. When youre paid by installment, theres rather an incentive to make the story drag on for as long as possible. An enclyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters.

Hard times isnt a particularly short novel, as novels goits about the standard lengthbut its less than a third the length of many of his more famous novels 104,821 words to david copperfield s 357,489, bleak. Once youre done reading about the worlds longest novel, check out some of our more recent. The longest letter ever written do you know who its to. While a classic, i feel it could probably have done with a bit of an edit in some of the middle sections. The book has over 3,277,227 words which counted in pages are 7312. If you set out to find the worlds shortest novel, as i recently did, youll run into a crazy pile of misinformation, unsourced quora and yahoo answers pages, ethnic slurs disguised as jokes, and general confusion about the difference between a novel, a novella, and a short story. The novel and the satire were born at the same time in this series of. The 7 longest books in american history america fun fact. Its theme of involuntary memory is repeated through the course of following the narrators life, from childhood. How many pages were in the longest book ever written answers.

As i did more research, i realized that there were many issues i had to take into consideration when deciding what to include on this list. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. It had to be published in 10 volumes, totalling,095 pages and. The 5 worst books ever written these books were literally word crap. The shortest novels written by 20 authors you shouldve. In the 1990s, america took in the largest number of immigrants it had ever seen in one decade. Perhaps it is the harry potter series, the land of stories series, or any other 2inchormore book. Traditionally, artamene ou le grand cyrus, has been considered the longest novel, but has. The guinness book of world records gives the honor to marcel prousts elephantine remembrance of things past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters including spaces. Even the authors know they are bloated beasts, for example take tad williams, writer of. Let me summarize some facts about worlds longest booknovel the blah story. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update articles. This fanfiction has 4,102,217 words, with more than 220 chapters.

Released in 1992, november rain is 9 minutes of musical genius, backedup by one of the great longest song music videos. Many believe that any fame, good or bad, is positive. It is supposedly the worlds longest published novel in english at 2. About ten days ago, a new world record was set for the longest letter ever written, and youll never guess who it was written to. My french edition of harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the longest book i. Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the worlds longest novel. Its recorded by guinness as the longest book ever written.

This poem tells the story of two princes, kaurava and pandava, during the kurukshetra war. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update by katerina s october 17, 2014 the length of a book is usually at least among the readers considered to be the number of. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading. This task ended up being much more complex than one would think a list of longest books. It, however, isnt even close to being the longest book ever written. It was in fact larger but the publishers managed to convince him to shed a. The ones that begin so grandly then morph into multivolume nightmares that never seem to end. Originally published 164954 in ten parts, each part in three volumes, artamene is generally attributed to. But id like to take this time to thank the 2 and 12 people in the entire universe who have bothered to read this entire thing.

Master hand had shown up right before tabuu could terminate the big group of smashers. Skunkville, known for a while as tbnokas, the blog novel once known as skunkville, has been written entirely since fall 2010, and currently has 683 bizarre, gripping, ridiculous, heartwarming chapters, 2,883 pages, untold thousands of weird pictures from web picture sharing sites, and 857,815 words as of may 30, 2012 brandscoop 8 years ago. Poor fellow my country by xavier herbert this is the longest australian novel ever written at. Jonathan coes the rotters club has a sentence with,955 words. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update 1 the blah story by nigel tomm. Originally published between 1649 and 1653, the novel is known to be the longest french novel ever written,095 pages in the original. The longest novel in a single volume that i have ever read is a suitable boy by vikram seth.