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Word counts
Out of curiosity, I made a list of the word counts for the books' text files on Gutenberg ('Orlando' is available at Gutenberg Australia)
(I didn't exclude the Gutenberg top and bottom text.)
570,052 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
355,186 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
161,716 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
86,392 Persuasion by Jane Austen
86,167 The Trial by Franz Kafka
82,190 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
79,582 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
66,494 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
36,790 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edward Abbott
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