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| | A very short novel (say between 20,000 and 50,000 words) is sometimes called a "[[novella]]." Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'', consisting of about 38,000 words, is an example. | | A very short novel (say between 20,000 and 50,000 words) is sometimes called a "[[novella]]." Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'', consisting of about 38,000 words, is an example. |
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| | + | == Word length of long novels == |
| | + | Here are the word lengths of notable long novels:<ref>https://blog.fostergrant.co.uk/2017/08/03/word-counts-popular-books-world/</ref> |
| | + | *''[[Les Miserables]]'', by Victor Hugo – 530,982 words |
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| | + | *Bleak House, by Charles Dickens – 360,947 words |
| | + | *Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens – 183,349 words |
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| | + | *War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy – 561,304 words |
| | + | *Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy – 349,736 words |
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| | + | *Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 words |
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| | + | *''[[Moby Dick]]'', by Herman Melville – 206,052 words |
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| | + | *For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway – 174,106 words |
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| | + | *Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë – 183,858 words |
| | + | *Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen – 126,194 words |
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| | + | *Catch-22, by Joseph Heller – 174,269 words |
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| | + | *Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand – 561,996 words |
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| | + | *''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 211,591 words |
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| | + | *''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'', by John Steinbeck – 169,481 words |
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| | + | *''Ulysses'', by James Joyce – 265,222 words |
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| | ==American== | | ==American== |