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What is the longest book ever written in modern publishing history--within the last 100 years?

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What is the longest book ever written in *modern* publishing history--within the last 100 years?

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Marienbad My Love by Mark Leach is the world's longest published novel in English containing 17 million words which was published this year. The Guinness Book of World Records list the longest novel as being A Rembrance of Time.
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"War and Peace" might be the correct answer.
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Maybe the Grapes of Wrath?
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That's a really tough question!

Here are some of my candidates:

"Infinite Jest"

"The Magic Mountain"

"War and Peace"

"Atlas Shrugged"

However it appears that the winner is Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, though I believe that is published in many different volumes and so is kind of up for debate.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lon... :)

I've read Atlas Shrugged, and also Infinite Jest, which I think should be on there.
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I'm not sure, but I do believe one of the longest English works in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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