Longest Novels By Word Count - Web a la recherche du temps perdu, by marcel proust, is the longest book in the world and is widely acknowledged as the longest book in print. Web though it's split up into multiple volumes, in search of lost time is considered the longest novel ever published by guinness world records. This was determined by the book's impressive. Nearly 1.3 million words and an estimated 9,609,000 characters comprise its length (the original english title was in search of lost time).
Web though it's split up into multiple volumes, in search of lost time is considered the longest novel ever published by guinness world records. Web a la recherche du temps perdu, by marcel proust, is the longest book in the world and is widely acknowledged as the longest book in print. Nearly 1.3 million words and an estimated 9,609,000 characters comprise its length (the original english title was in search of lost time). This was determined by the book's impressive.