The novel retells the famous stories of Genesis - from Jacob to Joseph - set within the historical context of the Amarna Period of Egyptian history around BC. Get our best stories straight to your inbox Get exclusive shortlists, celebrity interviews and the best deals on the products you care about, straight to your inbox.
Sign up. An example of an epistolary novel - one written as a series of documents such as letters or diary entries - this huge book was published in , telling a tragic story of a heroine constantly set back by her family.
To date it has sold over half a million copies in Norway alone - one for every nine people in the country. A huge range of important human themes are explored: truth; opinion; society and ideas and, in many ways, it foresaw the problems that Europe would face after Unfortunately, the novel was never finished, as Musil died before its completion, having been unable to settle on an appropriate ending.
He never saw fame or fortune with the book in his lifetime, despite spending 13 years of his life writing it. Written as a ten-book series by the father of the Church of Scientology, L.
Some people will buy into anything, eh? So, to summarise: really long, but really good. In terms of pure word count, this 17th century novel obliterates the opposition, with a whopping 2. Despite its gargantuan length, at the time it was hugely popular. However, it was not subsequently published again until an academic project was launched to make it available to read on the internet here.
So what are you waiting for? Today's Best Deals 1. The list of the best-selling books of all time includes titles ranging from 16, to , words. If there is an upper limit to how long novels can be, Marcel Proust reached it at the turn of the 20th century. The French writer's masterwork tells the story of his life while exploring themes like involuntary memory and the pursuit of truth and meaning.
After receiving rejections from numerous editors, Proust used his own money to have the first volume released by the Grasset publishing house in The full novel was published in 13 volumes between and At times the reading of a novel that was at all sad carried me suddenly back, for certain novels are like great but temporary bereavements, abolishing habit, bringing us once more into contact with the reality of life, but for a few hours only, like a nightmare, since the force of habit, the oblivion it creates, the gaiety it restores to us because of the powerlessness of the brain to fight against it and to re-create the truth, infinitely outweigh the almost hypnotic suggestion of a good book which, like all such influences, has very transient effects.
The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. It is as though they were traveling abroad. Search for:. Like this: Like Loading Follow Following.
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