Massive Tomes: 10 of the Worldâs Longest Novels: Media
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Marcel Proust
French author Marcel Proust's mammoth novel In Search of Lost Time (1913â27)...
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Vikram Seth, 2010
Indian writer Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy (1993) is one of the longest...
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The Thousand and One Nights
A page from The Thousand and One Nights depicting Morgiana entertaining...
From Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, illustrated by Walter Crane, c. 1890s
Ayn Rand, 1962
Russian-born American author Ayn Rand followed up her long novel The Fountainhead...
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Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy is the author of War and Peace (1865â69), considered...
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David Foster Wallace, 2006
American writer David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996) is a massive,...
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