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Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [25] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [26] [27] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell; she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and commonplace book. [28] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995 ...
According to Guinness World Records, as of 2023, World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd is the thickest book ever to have been physically produced, with a page count of 100,100. [3] Guinness also credits Shree Haricharitramrut Sagar as being the longest book to ever be published with a page count of 10,080 ...
He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's longest diary, until the journals of Robert Shields of Dayton, Washington, with 37.5 million words and crammed with minutes of daily living, were revealed in 1994. [2] Ellis authored books on the Great Depression and New York City, as well as a study of suicide.
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
A Book of One's Own: People and their diaries by Thomas Mallon, 1984. The Journal Book, edited by Toby Fulwiler, 1987. (Collection of essays on using journals in K12 classrooms.) Journal to the Self: twenty-two paths to personal growth by Kathleen Adams, 1990.
J. Jerry's Diary; John Evelyn's Diary; The Journal of a Disappointed Man; Journal of a Novel; The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon; The Journal of John Woolman
Since the archive was moved and re-established at Sussex University, a number of books based on the diaries commissioned by Mass-Observation in 1939 have been published. These include: [13] Among You Taking Notes. The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison ed. Dorothy Sheridan. 1985 (Victor Gollancz). 2000 (Phoenix)
The German Tagebuch ('days-book') is normally rendered as "diary" in English, but the term encompasses workbooks or working journals as well as diaries proper. [17] For example, the notebooks of the Austrian writer Robert Musil and of the German-Swiss artist Paul Klee are called Tagebücher .