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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Give us a target word count; a lot of indie books are sold in formats that don't measure length in pages.
Wikipedia's list of longest novels has Atlas Shrugged at 1088 pages and 645,000 words; Les Misérables is listed at 1488 pages and 531k words. Gone with the Wind, not on that list, is 1037 pages in paperback and ~418,000 words. |
I have opened Honor and blood - the third part of the Firestaff collection by James Galloway (downloaded in *.doc format) in Libre Office and used the "word count" function. It has 546,000 words.
As per the
post number 11 of this thread, Here are some word-counts
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As an example of what I'm looking for (purely as an example of length), use these five titles as a guideline:
1) War and Peace - 587,287 New American Library Version
2) The Stand - 520,000
3) Swan Song
4) Carrion Comfort
5) Atlas Shrugged - 645,000