A novel is a genre that involves a large amount of work. But there are such novels, the volume of which is generally perplexing, because somehow it was also written … Let's look at the largest novels in history.
Sironia, Texas
"Sironia, Texas" (Sironia, Texas) is a novel by the American author Madison Cooper, it is about a city that does not exist - Sironia, Texas, the time described in the work - the beginning of the XX century. Approximately 840,000 words and more than 1,700 pages, that's why with this novel we tear off the rating of the "thickest" works, or rather long novels. For 11 years the author worked on his work, and published it in 1952. The book won the Houghton Mifflin Prize.
Women and Men
This is a novel by Joseph McElroy and is originally called Women and Men, as you might have guessed. The book was published in 1987 and has 1,192 pages and 850,000 words. This novel is considered the most difficult to read in the world.
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Poor My Country
The original title of the novel is "Poor Fellow My Country" and was written by Australian Xavier Herbert, who received the Miles Franklin Award for his work. The work was published in 1975 and has 1,463 pages and 852,000 words. In Australia, no one wrote anything longer, of course, a speech about fiction.
Son of Ponny
This is a work of Kalki Krishnamurti, the title in the original sounds like "Ponniyin Selvan". There is nothing like this in Tamil literature, all critics have called this novel the greatest of all their literary heritage. The story is told by the author about Prince Arulmozhivarman (later crowned as Rajaraja Chola I), he ruled in the X-XI centuries. The 2,400-page book was published in the 1950s and contains 900,000 words.
Kelidar
The author of this huge work is Mahmoud Doulatabadi, it is called "Kelidar", the book is one of the greatest in Persian literature. There are 2,836 pages in five volumes, and there are 950,000 words in the work. The life of a Kurdish family from an Iranian village in the province of Khorasan is described, the period is 1946-1949. The problem in the novel is the hostility of the neighbors, although their cultures are similar.
Clarissa, or the Story of a Young Lady
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is a 1748 novel by the English writer Samuel Richardson, it is 1,534 pages long and has 984,870 words. This novel entered the Top 100 Novels of All Time.
Zettel's Dream
The German word master Arno Schmidt wrote a huge novel of 1,100,000 words and 1,536 pages, which was published in 1970. It is something in the form of notes that are interspersed with collages and typewritten pages.
Venmurasu
Again a Tamil novel, this time by Jayamohan, he began writing it in 2014, and then made a statement that he would write the work for 10 years. The author's plans are 25 thousand pages, in December 2017 there were already 11,159 of them, and 1,556,028 words.
In Search of Lost Time
This is a novel by the French writer Marcel Proust, he wrote it from 1908 to 1922, this is a memory of childhood in aristocratic France in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. That is, we are talking about wasting time, there is no sense in the world, there is only pathos and it stretches over 3,031 pages and 1,267,069 words.
Artamen, or the Great Cyrus
The leader in terms of page volume is Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, a French novel-river, published by his brother and sister, Madeleine de Scuderi and Georges de Scuderi. So it has 13,095 pages and 1,454,300 words. In the novel, everything is written in disguise, that is, the heroes are characters from Roman, Greek or Persian mythology, which reflect secular life.
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