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The Internet has destroyed our ability to permanently keep the attention — now even reading a children's book involves a feat of concentration. "Theory and practice" represent a list of the ten longest novels ever written.Of course, there is no consensus about how to measure the length of these texts — in pages, words or characters. However, if you master at least one of these novels from beginning to end, you will earn the eternal respect.

"Son Ponni" ("Ponniyin Selvan") Kalki Krishnamurthy, 900 000 words / 2400 pages

Published in the 1950s and published in five volumes, this historical novel, originally written in Tamil, tells the story of Rajaraja Cola First — one of the kings of the Chola dynasty, who ruled in the X–XI centuries. The creation of this novel took Krishnamurti for three years and six months — it's likely that its reading is the same (not taking into account the need for language learning).

"Kelidar" (کلیدر) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, 950, 000 words / 2836 pages

This famous Iranian novel published in 1984 tells the story of a Kurdish family in the Iranian city Sabzevari, where she faces hostility from neighbors; it is all in the restless for Iranian policy years after the Second world war. Work took Dowlatabadi 15 years, liked the novel readers and critics, otherwise he would be a really serious waste of time.

"Joseph and his brothers" ("Joseph und seine Brüder"), Thomas Mann, 1492 pages

Epic tetralogy, written by German writer Thomas Mann, was published in the middle of the war, in 1943, in Sweden. The novel contains a retelling of the famous events of the book of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph, taken within the historical context of the Amarna period of Egyptian history (around 1300 BC). On the creation of the four volumes of Thomas Mann worked for 16 years.

"Clarissa, or the history of a young lady" ("Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady") Samuel Richardson, 984 870 words / 1534 page

An example of an epistolary novel, written as a series of documents — letters and diary entries. This huge volume, published in 1748, tells the tragic story of a girl whose family was fixing her various obstacles. Let's be honest: if the reader decided to read a million words, he would prefer a happy ending.

"My struggle" ("Min Kamp") Karl Ove Knowshon, 1 000 000 words / 3600 pages

Don't worry — this is not a famous book by one of the Austrian, who suffered from megalomania, and autobiographical six-volume Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knowshon, published in the period from 2009 to 2011. The cycle has gained immense popularity thanks to the unswerving honesty and candid details of the author's story about relationships with friends, family, vulgarity and humiliation in his life — so Frank that his wife Knowshon had a nervous breakdown. At the moment, has already sold more than half a million copies in Norway alone — one in nine people in the country.

"The sleep of Settela" ("Zettels Traum") of Arno Schmidt, 1 100 000 words / 1536 pages

During the joint work with Hans Wallchiere on the translation of the works of Edgar Allan PoE into German the Arno Schmidt was born the desire to write a novel on the difficulties of translating Edgar Allan PoE into German. Well, they say it is best to write about what you really know. The novel was released in 1970 and is considered the pinnacle of creativity.

"Man without qualities" ("Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften"), Robert Musil, 1774 pages

A novel in three books — "history of ideas" unfolding in the last days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1913. It covers a range of important topics: the truth, and the opinions, ideas, and society; in many ways it foreshadows the problems that swept Europe after 1918. Unfortunately, the text was not finished, as Musil died before he could give the story an appropriate ending. The book did not bring the author neither fame nor fortune, despite the 13 wasted years.

"Mission "Earth" ("Mission Earth") by L. Ron Hubbard, 1 200 000 words / 3992 page

The novel is in ten books, written by the founder of Scientology Ron Hubbard, is a specific work, positioned as "a satirical fantasy adventure in the far future," but derided by critics and forbidden to print in some countries. For example, Dalton (Georgia, USA) the book was trying to remove from public libraries, claiming that it contains "repeated passages filled with chronic masochism, child abuse, homosexuality, black magic, bloody murders and other such things, is a perverted anti-social:". However, all ten books have become bestsellers. Some people buy in spite of.

"In search of lost time" ("À la recherche du temps perdu") Marcel Proust, 1 069 267 words / 3031 page

Named the longest artwork in the Guinness Book of records, a masterpiece of Proust consists of seven novels, combining for more than two thousand characters. A leitmotif is a theme of involuntary memories, recurring throughout the life of the narrator — from childhood to maturity. The novel, published between 1913 and 1927, has had an enormous influence on subsequent works of the XX century; many researchers call it the last — and most important — modernist novel.

"Artemin, or Cyrus the Great" ("Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus"), Madeleine de Scudery, 2 100 000 words / 13 095 pages

This Baroque novel of the seventeenth century is an epic in ten volumes, in which fit more than two million words. Authorship attributed to George Scuderi, but it more belongs to his sister Madeleine. It is a secular novel with clucas endless twists and turns designed to keep the story intrigue. Despite the huge length, it was quite popular at the time. Nevertheless, the novel was not republished until until academic project opened access to the Internet (www.artamene.org). What are you waiting for? 13 thousand pages themselves do not read.

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