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Books of this magnitude are usually produced by large teams of people in order to be made. The thickest single-volume book in the world, World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd , with a page count of 100,100 containing and 7,862 articles, required a team of 292 participants.
The normal three-volume novel was around 900 pages in total at 150–200,000 words; the average length was 168,000 words in 45 chapters. It was common for novelists to have contracts specifying a set number of pages to be filled.
But while the length of a novel is mainly dependent on its writer, [5] lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words, [6] and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words. [7]
Novels sometimes use a table of contents, but not always. If chapters are used they are normally numbered sequentially; they may also have titles, and in a few cases an epigraph or prefatory quotation. In older novels it was a common practice to summarise the content of each chapter in the table of contents and/or in the beginning of the chapter.
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The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in literature for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s · 1900s · 1800s · 1700s · 1600s · 1500s · 1400s · Other
Costco is closing the book on year-round sales of physical novels. The bulk retailer is looking to end constant book sales at 500 of its 600 stores across the U.S., according to reports .
Les Hommes de bonne volonté (transl. Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel and, at two million words and 7,892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written.