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I picked Dune/Song of Ice and Fire because they're thematically similar. In terms of bloat, excluding the Tale of Genji or the Story of the Stone, I can hardly
by bowlich 8y ago
I picked Dune/Song of Ice and Fire because they're thematically similar.
In terms of bloat, excluding the Tale of Genji or the Story of the Stone, I can hardly think of anything in the 1800s that pushes into the 1M+ word mark in order to tell a complete story. I mean, people used to joke about War & Peace being long and it's hovering around 1/2 a million words -- and at least when I read it, Tolstoy seemed to be using every last one of them.
- emodendroket 8y agoIn absolute length of the longest works I can't really tell you. But the style of diction is much wordier and can often be trying for modern readers. I feel bad about this, being a proud New Englander, but I find the transcendentalists practically unreadable.
- mcguire 8y agoDavid Copperfield is 360k. Two Cities is 140k. (http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2011/12/a-dickens-of-a-list.html http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2011/12/a-dickens-of-a-...)