4 Longest Books In The World

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Yashshvi Srivastava
Sep 17, 2024

Length Of Books

The length of books varies on different criteria and measuring the record of the longest book has always been in controversy.

Character Count

The most common method of determining the length of the book is by counting the characters including number of spaces, written characters and punctuation.

Here is the list of longest books in the world

Zettels Traum

This book written by Arno Schmidt has a total of 1,496 pages with approximately 1,300,000 words.

Artamene Ou Le Grand Cyrus

The author Madeleine de Scudery completed this novel in 13,095 pages with 1,954,300 words. This romantic novel was originally published in 10 columns as a novel sequence.

Venmurasu

Bahuleyan Jeyamohan wrote this modern day interpretation of the Indian classical epic Mahabharatha in 22,400 pages with the use of 2,300,000 words.

A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

This novel by Marcel Proust is ratified by Guinness World Record as the longest novel ever written in 3,031 pages and with the use of around 1,267,069 words.

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