Remembrances of Things Past? (Is that more a novel or a memoir? I’ve never read it.) Les Miserables? War and Peace?
I don’t mean works in a series (like some of Stephen King’s), just the longest single novel.
According to the Guiness Book of World Records :
The longest novel of note ever published is Les hommes de bonne volonte by Louis-Henri-Jean Farigoule (1885-1972), alias Jules Romains, of France, in 27 volumes in 1932-46. The English version Men of Good Will was published in 14 volumes in 1933-46 as a ‘novel-cycle.’ The 4,959-page edition published by Peter Davies Ltd has an estimated 2,070,000 words, excluding the 100-page index. The novel Tokuga-Wa Ieyasu by Sohachi Yamaoka has been serialized in Japanese daily newspapers since 1951. Now completed, it will require nearly 40 volumes
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Here’s a link directly to that entry: Literature : Longest novel
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