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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.
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
This is a list of manga series by volume count of manga series that span at least 50 tankÅbon volumes. There are 139 manga series from which 73 series are completed and 66 series are in ongoing serialization. Ongoing series are highlighted in light green
The TV series also contributed to increasing the geographic coverage of the books, introducing new customers in emerging countries like India and Brazil to the book series. All this has significantly increased the overall book sales. As of April 2019, the book series has sold 90 million copies worldwide. [5]
After the 100th book in the series was published in 2005, an event to celebrate this was held in Tokyo, with 600 attending. [7] Guin Saga is the longest single-writer's work in the world, [8] with total sales of 30 million copies. [5] The main story of Guin Saga resumed on November 8, 2013, four years after the passing of the original author.
Book series can be compared with editorial collection, a type of serial publication which is common in the Romance-speaking world, especially in France. Although the two are similar in many ways, book series and editorial collection differ because books in a series generally have a common subject, character, or universe; in other words, a set ...
The fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the longest book in the series, yet it is the second-shortest film at 2 hours 18 minutes. [ 17 ] After the publishing of Order of the Phoenix , the sixth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , was published on 2 April 2005 and sold 9 million copies in the first ...
Tor Books published a companion book to the series, entitled The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, in November 1997, which contains much hitherto unrevealed background information about the series including the first maps of the entire world and the Seanchan home continent. Jordan co-authored the book with Teresa Patterson.