A la recherche du temps perdu by
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Its title translates to Remembrance of Things Past (first translated into English as In Search of Lost Time) and contains nearly 1.3 million words with an estimated 9,609,000 characters.
If you started reading this book, and read for 8 hours a day, every day, it would take you about 70 million years to finish.
At the time of this post, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, or Remembrance of Things Past) is recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest novel ever written. It has a whopping 9,609,000 characters!
In a 2 worded sentence in a book in the New Testament portion of The Holy Bible, God Himself revealed both the Divinity and the Humanity of His only Son, Jesus Christ, with "Jesus wept."
How Long Should a Short Story Be? The average short story should run anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 words, but they can be anything above 1,000 words. Flash fiction is a short story that is 500 words or less.
“… and Ladies of The Book Club” by Helen Hooven Santmyer – 600,000 words.
Depending on your reading speed, it should take you between two and three hours to go through 100 pages. It takes an average reader approximately 2.8 hours to read 100 pages.
It's easy to imagine these super readers as being speed readers. However, you can read 50 books per year even if you aren't particularly fast. It doesn't require a massive time commitment, either. By making small tweaks to your daily life, you can carve out the time to read 50 books in a year.
For example, a 75,000-word book is about 300 pages long.
The book is entitled 'Shree Haricharitramrut Sagar' and is a biography of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan.
Can a Novel Be 100 Pages? No. A 100-page book is too short to be considered a novel, regardless of the genre. Here's why: stories are classified according to their word counts.
Reading 100 books in a year is an accomplishment. For most people, it will stretch their horizons and stretch their brain to its limit. But it won't make you smarter unless what you read actually starts to impact the way that you live.
Start with the number of books you want to read, and work backwards to figure out how much you'll have to read each week. 100 books a year is approximately two books a week. Novels are generally around 240 pages. A typical reading speed is about one page per minute.
Average reading speed by page
The average college student can read approximately 20 pages per hour of easy fiction and non-technical material (the average textbook contains 800 words per page). For technical material, the average student can read around 11 pages per hour (149 wpm).
If you're a fast reader, you may read at closer to 400 words per minute. This means reading 100,000 pages will take you around 2083.3 hours.
1,000,000 words is 2000 pages single-spaced or 4000 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 1,000,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 3,333 minutes to read 1,000,000 words.
The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170 words.
A 10,000 word count will create about 20 pages with single spacing or 40 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt. Arial font, and a standard A4 (letter size) page size.
For most publishers, a book is “novel-length” when it's between 50,000 and 110,000 words. At a writers conference I recently attended, publishing veteran Jane Friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn't novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much.
The average person speaks 120 to 160 words a minute, which means the average five-minute presentation is 600 to 800 words.
A 4-minute read, on average, comes out to be 800 to 1,000 words. That's enough room to say a few important things, offer up some tips, give advice that's rich and comprehensive, while at the same time not overstay your welcome.