FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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Book X
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Book VIII
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Book IX
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Book I
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Guinness Book of World Records gives the honor to Marcel Proust’s elephantine Remembrance of Things Past, weighing in at 9, 609, 000 characters (including spaces). Other commentators cite Henry Darger’s In the Realms of the Unreal, a 15, 000 page, handwritten tome that has yet to see print.
Detailed explanation-2: -A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9, 609, 000 characters (each letter counts as one character. Spaces are also counted, as one character each).
Detailed explanation-3: -1, 267, 069 words/3, 031 pages/9, 609, 000 characters Rated the longest novel ever by the Guinness Book of World Records, there’s no doubt that Proust’s masterpiece could quite easily double up as a mightily effective doorstop, with 13 volumes clocking up nearly 1.3 million words.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1990, an unabridged edition of The Stand was published, billed as The Complete and Uncut Edition. Published in hardcover by Doubleday in May 1990, this became the longest book published by King at 1, 152 pages.