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Anthony Adverse might be of interest. A very big book indeed. Half a million words, or about 5 regular novels in one. It's free right here in the Library, kindle or epub.
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You want BIG and THICK?
Have I got a solution for all your needs! Try Brazil, by Errol Lincoln Uys. Uys was James Michener's fact-checker and researcher, and probably wrote parts of some of Michener's later novels. This book is over 1,100 pages long. Here's the beautiful cover: Last edited by Dr. Drib; 08-13-2020 at 03:10 PM. Reason: researchER |
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Since it seems the OP wants stats on exactly how big is big, a more specific plug for the 592,000 word, 1348 page A Suitable Boy
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo |
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850,000 words give or take a few, is the size of "Poor Fellow my Country". More reliable guide to size than page numbers. I hadn't realised it was that vast. Herbert's earlier novel, which I remember at home when I was a kid in the 1950s, "Capricornia", was also vast. I tried to read Capricornia but it was too much: I could barely lift it.
A great big saga sometimes forgotten is "Music of Time", a sequence of 12 novels spanning the period from WW1 to the 1960s. Author was Anthony Powell. Each individual novel is about 80,000 words, so the whole set is around 1,000,000. The central characters are Nicholas Jenkins and Kenneth Widmerpool. The series: A Question of Upbringing Buyers Market Acceptance World At Lady Molly's Casanova's Chinese Restaurant The Kindly Ones The Valley of Bones The Soldier's Art The Military Philosophers Books do Furnish a Room Temporary Kings Hearing Secret Harmonies |
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Shayne Parkinson's Promises to keep and Daisy series, set in New Zealand starting in the 1880's. Both series are related. The first book, Sentence of Marriage is free. (Smashwords and Amazon)
P.B. Ryan's Nell Sweeney Mystery Series, set in Boston. The first book, Still Life with Murder is free. (Amazon) |
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I recommend The Cazalet Chronicles omnibus with 3500 pages. It's seamless. Centres around World War 2. It's in my top 10 books of all time.
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