Aug 16, 2017 a suitable boy by vikram seth which is an amazing piece of literary work and personally i consider his lifes masterpiece is simply magnanimous. If you include childrensyoung teen book series, there are some american series that are pretty long. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records. 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. Ron hubbard, this longest novel book in fact has little to do with scientologist beliefs, though, like the scientologist mythology, mission earths plot is based on an alien race coming to earth and the chaos that ensues. Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars trying to find a cure for the. A long novel tends to be no longer than a pages at most, which is already pushing the boundary. Armen shekoyan, an armenian writer committed to producing the worlds longest novel, says. The length of the page is 100% generated by adding one line with every visitor.
After all, whats ten volumes compared to the 106 volumes of the hakkenden, a japanese epic running to 38 million words. Here, he definitively answers the ageold question of how long the longest book in the world could be. It is currently the longest novel published in modern chinese. Yep, that is my summer reading, he replied, glancing down at the 1,088page behemoth of a novel. Compiling a list of longest novels yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are counted. As well as organizing the fifth buddhist council in 1871, he was responsible for the construction in mandalay of the world s largest book, consisting of 729 large marble tablets with the tipitaka pali canon of theravada buddhism inscribed on them in gold. It is the worlds longest underground tunnel that is more than more than 100 kilometers. Together the rows of pagodas form the biggest book in the world and this is how kuthodaw is now known. The longest novel in a single volume that i have ever read is a suitable boy by vikram seth. For fine print and technical details, either scroll down by yourself or take the elevator, which offers light speed hypertext transportation for free.
Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the worlds longest novel. Seeking an entry in the guinness book of world records, a college principal on monday released a book with the longest title of 1022 words with 4805 characters and no space. It contains 3,958 pages in four volumes and took 10 years to complete. 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 pages from cover to cover. Say an author announces that his or her next book will be the longest book in the world. Firstly, it is easy to count the number of pages or words in a digital manuscript today, but for older books, this number can only be estimated. Take a look at some of the longest novels, size really does matter. The profoundly influential volume work contains 9,609,000 characters, with each letter and space counting as one character. Britains tax code is an incredible 17,000 pages long, surely a dogwhistle to the very rich.
Do you wonder how many pages a given number of words is. The oxford english dictionary has 10 volumes, 15,490 pages. Venmurasu is a tamil book still being written that should be 25,000 pages. At that point, i think we can safely say that we have produced the worlds longest book. This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the world s largest book. It is supposedly the worlds longest published novel in english at 2. If youre looking for videos featuring the world s tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on. Another template consists of a book title and an author, which, when paired together, would be nonsensical. By scrolling the replaced lines, the 333 real lines in this section will be loaded and displayed.
Nov 12, 2007 the title has 4805 characters and no spaces. 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. Oct 17, 2014 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 pages from cover to cover. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19. Discover world s largest book at kuthodaw pagoda in mandalay, myanmar burma. The best longest books 70 books goodreads share book. Robert burtons 1861 catalog of his humanity, the anatomy of melancholy.
The title translates to remembrance of things past. But many people feel that they will inevitably suffer the diseases of old age in their final years. This website converts the number of words to the number of pages, online and for free. Twentyfive nominees in five categories made it from the longlist to the shortlist of the national book awards.
The longest coloring book in the world yoon, sarah on. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update articles. How many pages were in the longest book ever written answers. Climb down to the depths of the ocean in this amazing foldout coloring book, the longest in the world. The book was unveiled by mshahed international group, in. The book was unveiled by mshahed international group, in dubai, uae, on 27 february 2012. Men of good will by jules romains has 2,070,000 words. It is made of stone and was built to connect water to cities in the ancient province of syria. It has been published in 9 volumes over a period of 40 years. Its theme of involuntary memory is repeated through the course.
The massive volume, a collection of the 12 novels and 20 short. Jun 27, 2017 if you are a big book reader or youre curious about the lengths some ya novels have gone in their physical manifestation then youll enjoy this look at the longest ya books around. How ever there are other sites like the worlds longest book that offer both a community and a 100% chance of getting published. Heres a look at three of them, and also one that didnt make the cut but has an interesting scandal going on in norway. Weve taken a look at the shortest books in the bible, but what about the longest book in the bible if youd asked me about it in sunday school, my answer would have been a quick, confident psalms. This tool is useful when writing essays at university to determine how many pages you are required to write. Here at seltek, we have recently received what we believe to be the worlds longest cv. First written down over two thousand years ago, mindon felt that these scriptures would be a fitting testament to his life. It ran to 37 pages, thus surpassing our previous best of a mere 17 pages. If youre looking for videos featuring the worlds tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on. The melding of two love stories ruth and ira and sophia and. The book contains the pail canon, which is a collection of scriptures in the theravada tradition of buddhism. And i thought the stand was long its only 1168 pages. Which book has the largest number of copies in the world.
It has put me in mind to appraise you the reading and cvtoting public of a few home truths about cvs, because in general, the cvs we receive are a motley bunch indeed. One more was added to record how it all came about, making it 730 stone inscriptions in total. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. A related joke template is the generic book title everything that x knows about y, the book being entirely composed of blank pages.
If you include children s young teen book series, there are some american series that are pretty long. All records listed on our website are current and uptodate. This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the worlds largest book. If you write a book according to the usual criteria, one person may like it, the other may dislike it, but when you write ten volumes, no one will say that the book is in eight. This task ended up being much more complex than one would think a list of longest books ever should be. An enclyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters. Top 10 longest novels in the english languagetop 10 longest novels in the english languagei love a long book that i can really get into, so i decided to compile a list of the longest novels ever written. The list below has been compiled from a lot of research, and it includes only stand alone titles or the first book in a series. The worlds longest book is a site dedicated to creating a book over 344mm thick.
Most pages in a flip book international book of records. Tarikh dimasq, in 33000 pages, available on playstore with search option. Discover worlds largest book at kuthodaw pagoda in mandalay, myanmar burma. This book in malayalam is known as the longest written in an indian language. Welcome to the official international book of records youtube channel. Here at the longest chapter, instead of calling out best books of 2019, ive gathered a more personal list. But savoring a book of, say, 800 pages or longer is a project.
A book with a million authors and a million chapters now thats a project worth getting excited about. Worlds largest book at kuthodaw pagoda mandalay, myanmar. A glorious mess in a career of glorious messes, pynchons longest and. An example would be theory of racial harmony, by george wallace. A childrens fable certified by guinness world records as the smallest book ever reproduced in a colorful large print edition. We shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you. Imajica chronicles the events surrounding the reconciliation of earth, called the fifth dominion, with the other four dominions, or the parallel worlds unknown to all but a select few of earths inhabitants. Andrew krivak s new novel the bear tells the story of a father and daughter living peacefully in an edenic world now uninhabited by humans. It was in fact larger but the publishers managed to convince him to shed a. Britains tax code is an incredible 17, 000 pages long. Aug 04, 2015 the two longest crosswords ever creatednow together for the first time.
May 20, 2009 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 million authors will give us a book that will run somewhere between 3 and 5 million pages in length. A suitable boy by vikram seth which is an amazing piece of literary work and personally i consider his lifes masterpiece is simply magnanimous. You can submit not only writing, but pictures and drawings and photographs, really anything that could go into a book. Du temps perdu translated as remembrance of things past is the worlds longest novel, according to guinness world records. Dr subramonian, principal, dr r v arts and science college, karamadai, about 25 km from coimbatore, has written a book about daniel radcliffe, the young actor, who gave life to j k rowlings character harry. Sep 21, 2018 welcome to the official international book of records youtube channel. Sutherland this underground tunnel is an excellent example of the remarkable ingenuity of the ancient roman engineers. I figured this because the book has 150 psalms, and the runnerup in chapter count would have been isaiah, with a meager 66 chaptersthats less than half of what psalms has. I used word count, not number of pages, as the measure of length, and 3. The longest book ever written the longest book ever written is called yongle dadian. Amazingly, in spite of their massive size, these puzzles follow the rules of standard american crosswords. Today we are living longer than ever before, and a few of us can expect to live to 100 or more.
Top 10 longest novel books in the world world most. If you are a big book reader or youre curious about the lengths some ya novels have gone in their physical manifestation then youll enjoy this look at the longest ya books around. The controversy will soon be put to rest, possibly for all time, when writer richard grossman installs his 3 millionpage novel breeze avenue on a. Welcome to worlds longest website growing with every. Robert chaplin is raising funds for the worlds smallest book a large print edition on kickstarter. The second part of his work won international awards as soon as it was published and with them, an international reputation. It was published in ten volumes but considered a single work and contains 2. What remains of past civilization are a few books and, in the far beyond, buried walls. Ten of the worlds longest books for reading addicts. Its official at 4,032 pages, all resting on a spine over a foot thick, the worlds thickest book is the complete miss marple. 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. Its a complex tale, and at 900 pages, one of the longest science fiction books of all time. The number of pages changes depending on the number of words, the font and the font size. Personally, i think the longest i ever read was the animorphs series 54 plus 10 companion books.
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