what is the longest book published, war and peace or the rise and fall of the third reicht?

Answer 1

there's a novel called "In The Realms of the Unreal" , by a man named Henry Darger, that is over 20,000 pages long. Darger was a poor man with no family, that no-one knew anything about until after he died, and they found the novel he had written and hundreds of paintings. there's a documentary about him that is incredible- it's also called, "In The Realms of the Unreal"

Answer 2

When I was 15, I read a book, that was actually 3 books, each had 600 pages.
The title was 'Die Ahnen' the author was Freitag Meyer. The title translated is The Ancestors, and it was about what was done to a family over three generations by the Catholic Church. It was an eye opener. It was also on the church's black list. BIG surprise there.
I have in all my life never found a longer book than that.
And I have thus far read in excess of 5,000 books.
I have NO idea whether it was the longest book ever published. Probably not.

Answer 3

The Yongle Dadian, a Chinese encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters, is the longest book ever written. There are an estimated 370 million Chinese characters used.

Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (English translation is titled Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time) holds the Guiness Record for the longest novel.

The Darger novel the other answerer refered to /could/ be the longest novel, but it hasn't been published. Conservative estimates put the number of words in the neighborhood of a million, if not 10s of millions. The title of that one is also known as The Story of the Vivian Girls.

Answer 4

the bible

Answer 5

ENCYLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, i think.