Going by word count, the longest conventionally published book in the world is generally said to be artamene,ou le grand cyrus atarmene or. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. Du temps perdu translated as remembrance of things past is the worlds longest novel, according to guinness world records. All records listed on our website are current and uptodate. We have different height, different body proportions but generally we all look alike, which makes it. This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the worlds largest book.
In his new book what if serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, randall munroe tackles all the problems youve been. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19. Here, he definitively answers the ageold question of how long the longest book in the world could be. The longest word ever to appear in literature comes from aristophanes play, assemblywomen, published in 391 bc. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page countleading many to. The second part of his work won international awards as soon as it was published and with them, an international reputation. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. This is a very fun book as it is in fact one of the longest crossword puzzles in the world. And i thought the stand was long its only 1168 pages. Ten of the worlds longest books for reading addicts.
Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update 1 the blah story by nigel tomm. 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. Top 10 longest novels in the english language 10 infinite jest david foster wallace. What is the longest poetry book in the world answers. Given the available resources of our planet, how long is the longest individual hardcover book we could publish. Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the worlds longest novel. The longest title of a book consists of 11,284 characters, achieved by srijan timilsina nepal in lalitpure, nepal, on 19 february 2014. Character count is at best an estimation of spaces, written characters and punctuation.
The guinness book of world records gives the honor to marcel proust s elephantine remembrance of things past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters including spaces. Srijans book was inaugurated at kathmandu university nepal. The guinness book of world records gives the honor to marcel prousts elephantine remembrance of things past, weighing in at 9,609,000. Its an awesome crossword puzzle with clever but not impossible to. Say an author announces that his or her next book will be the longest book in the world. It is supposedly the worlds longest published novel in english at 2. Long or short fiction, the world gets bigger when we read. Discover worlds largest book at kuthodaw pagoda in mandalay, myanmar burma. I say this because megabooks like marcel prousts remembrance of things past which, according to guinness world records is the longest novel at about. Fortunately, visitors certainly arent expected to use the citys full name nor do its residents, but it can still boast having the longest city name in the world according to the guinness book of world records. It was published in ten volumes but considered a single work and contains 2. This also means that much of whats written today, such as internet articles, tend to be shorter and more concise than many of the worlds older books and. The longest novel is artamene ou le grand cyrus, originally published 164954 in ten parts, each part in three volumes.