World's longest written book

It contains 3,958 pages in four volumes and took 10 years to complete. Top 10 longest novel books in the world world most. Its owner, 83 year old mehmet ozyurerk resides in turkey where he owns a smalltown bakery. Also, length is no measure of the difficulty in reading a book. Looking at your question you say english literature. The title translates to remembrance of things past. Proust is no match for these two fanfics the daily dot. It has been published in 9 volumes over a period of 40 years. The subspace emissarys worlds conquest is currently over 3,500,000 words. And in his spare time, he writes the longest work of fan fiction ever composed. The shortest novels written by 20 authors you shouldve.

Thus begins the longest work of fiction ever written. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. If youre unhappy with some of the choices other people have made for this list, go add the books to other more positive lists. It may be a matter of numeric measurement, but thickest doesnt necessarially mean hardest, or even longest. The success or failure of the their mission will determine the fate of. This resulted in the creation of the epic which in persian is called shahnameh or translated the book of kings, the longest poem ever written in history. I wanted to identify the shortest novel ever written in order to solve a mystery thats been plaguing me. World records in poetry writing creative genius 101. I guess the hardy boys would count, but those books tend to be one off books and not a continuing series of books. Ferdowsis great aim was to revive the ancient persian culture, mythology and language after the. Even if i needed to do book reports on them, i found their plots to be. The 7 longest books in american history america fun fact. Ten of the worlds longest books for reading addicts.

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. Impress your friends by breaking or inventing your own writing world records on. Todays word documents dont have problem counting them, but how was in the past, lets say in the 17th century when books were written with actual holding oily pens or pencils in this article we will also talk about longest books in the world and how the writers managed to write those books. Longest epic poem in history the longest epic poem in the word is called the mahabharata c. Like the official flamingchickens lunar colony info. 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. 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. The book has over 3,277,227 words which counted in pages are 7312. Also, do we consider books written only in one particular language or all language of the world together or translated versions. What is the longest written story in english literature. Here, he definitively answers the ageold question of how long the longest book in the world could be. Poor fellow my country by xavier herbert this is the longest australian novel ever written at.

It still is as chaotic as ever, but at least this way people can find certain stuff easier. As i am writing this, i am in the process of adding a navigation bar to the longest text ever. Top 10 longest novels in the english language listverse. The entire book is made out of 24 carat gold and consists of six sheets bound together, which have illustrations of a horserider, a mermaid, a harp, and soldiers. 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. It is the real world that is the real prize behind the entire war. It is a massive romance novel, with endless twists and turns. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19. An enclyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters.

Robert chaplin is raising funds for the world s smallest book a large print edition on kickstarter. Those fools do not even know about the real world existing, but they are missing the big picture he turned around. Meet the college junior behind the longest fan fiction ever. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading. 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. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update 1 the blah story by nigel tomm. It is currently the longest novel published in modern chinese. The gutenberg bible, also known as the 42line bible, is listed by the guinness book of world records as the worlds oldest mechanically printed book the first copies of which were printed in 14541455 ad. In the image above the blah story books taken from prleap. After much research, we have found the longest joke in the world. At 840,000 words, this novel was declared the longest novel by an american when it was released on new years day 1952. What is the longest series of books ever written answers. The prophecy of the stones is about three teenage girls who come together to fulfill an ancient prophecy, while in a parallel world another girl lies dying in a hospital. Armen shekoyan, an armenian writer committed to producing the worlds longest novel, says.

The world s longest book title is the history of the wars of newengland with the eastern indians, or a narrative of their continued perfidy and cruelty, from the 10th of august, 1703, to the peace renewed th of july, 17, and from the 25th of july, 1722, to their submission 15th december, 1725, which was ratified august 5th, 1726m by samuel penhallow. 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. 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. Take a look at some of the longest novels, size really does matter. I wanted to see the great forests, the canyons, the cities, even the. When i say series i mean books written about and staring the same characters. It is possible to find longer novels but we thought it would be unkind to recommend l ron hubbard books or horrendously lengthy self published beasts. Rated the longest novel ever by the guinness book of world records, theres no doubt that prousts masterpiece could quite easily double up as. 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. It is a guinness world record, therefore you can see the original title sorry for not including it here, but come on 11k characters. 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. The longest cave makes the reader get down on hands and knees, to crawl through the tight spots and the false leads and the boulder slides. A childrens fable certified by guinness world records as the smallest book ever reproduced in a colorful large print edition.

This here ladys and gentlmen is the longest piece of literature in english. Of all the books ever published, which one has the longest. This book in malayalam is known as the longest written in an indian language. If you look closely, a lot of books show up on both the worst books of all time list and the best books ever lists. Ancient minister, begin preparations to invade one of their worlds. The longest novel ever published was written in the 1600s. 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. But somewhere in the rocks and mud under central kentucky, the reader becomes selfreliant, begins crawling around the next twist of cave, begins to care.

The poem contains more than 220000 verses and roughly 2 million words. There are many great posts in this section already. With this in mind, i did some research and came up with thirty of the longest fantasy series ever published. According to a 1983 guinness book of records, this monster once qualified as literatures longest at 1,288 words, but that record has long been surpassed, in english at least, by jonathan coes the rotters club, which ends with a 33pagelong,955 word sentence. The worlds longest nose is approximately three and onehalf inches. The longest book ever written the longest book ever written is called yongle dadian. Top 10 longest books in the world 2018 update articles. From human achievements to the extremes of the natural world, here youll find curated lists filled with some of the most incredible world records from the many thousands contained in the guinness world records database. To aid you in your worthwhile endeavor, ive sought out the shortest novels written by a selection of difficult writers. Pictures of buyers, who must apply to purchase the book, will be incorporated into the text itself. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page. Though it is a whopping 2,100,000 words and, 095 pages long, in its time it was hugely popular.

It was published in two volumes to accommodate the 1,700 pages and told the story of a small town in texas called sironia at the turn of the century. This may sound really odd, but i started writing fan fiction because it. It is the longest japanese novel and also one of the longest ever written. This books is considered to be the longest published book in. Sure, you could start with their most famous book, but if your real, secret goal is to only say youve read soandso at your next party and not be lying, why not start with their shortest. It is supposedly the world s longest published novel in english at 2. Longest todo list written in one minute mick cullen.

Although not much is known about the etruscan gold book, it is believed to be oldest book in the world as it dates back to around 600 bce. He studies computer science and computer maintenance. Flavia bujor wrote her first book when she was 12 and published it with harpercollins when she was 14. One more was added to record how it all came about, making it 730 stone inscriptions in total. Its theme of involuntary memory is repeated through the course of following the narrators life, from childhood. This is a list of the longest novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. 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. Check out some of the coolest and quirkiest writing world records and videos. This book fills in a lot of the details that are mentioned only briefly on the show. Many of the book choices are mentioned numerous times. Over the years, there has been some controversy over what constitutes the worlds longest novel. And i thought the stand was long its only 1168 pages.