It is supposedly the worlds longest published novel in english at 2. Les miserables i have been posting quotes from this book for a while now. However, one has to be patient, and simply enjoy what each chapter is about. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Just for fun, lets look at another marathonlength book, les miserables by victor hugo. In the original french, les mis is 655,478 words, but apparently there. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. If you can type at 60 words a minute, it would take you just over 217 and a half hours to retype the entire bible. Jackson made the lord of the rings trilogy with a one book to one film ratio. Les miserables english language and millions of other books are available. Only the saintly bishop, monseigneur myriel, welcomes him. His hobby of sketching was such that it is said that. If you are an author of a book or know of a books accurate wordcount, contact me.
Word count is a direct way to measure the length of a novel in a. Keep in mind that a few of these are translations of foreignlanguage novels, so the statistics will not be perfect for those. Its a trivial matter to determine a word count or even find the number of sentences in a passage, but how can we measure the general emotion of that passage. The great french novel why do we still read les miserables. Les miserables the musical is based on victor hugos epic novel, spanning two decades in the life of jean valjean. Ive read this scene so many times and it still makes me cry. To ask other readers questions about les miserables, please sign up.
Like a general fiction novel, a good target word count for a memoir is 80,000 words. Most young adult novels fall between 55,000 and 70,000 words. Movie reels, which predated fulllength films, were short clips that had a beginning. Generally i consider any novel that is less than 300 pages to be a short one, 500 page a medium sized novel and anything more than 750 a lengthy novel. Below is a short list of some famous novels and authors with their respective writing statistics. Les miserables by victor hugo goodreads share book. Word count is a direct way to measure the length of a novel in a manner unaffected by variations of format and page size. Buy les miserables classics by hugo, victor, denny, norman, denny, norman, denny, norman from amazons fiction books store.
Normally people count pages as a more obvious measurement, but these depend on the publishers editing, translation and other factors. Illustrations, photos, and diagrams support comprehension. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Les miserables is a truly emotional book that inspires you to look within yourself. The books opens by describing the life of a really upstanding dude named bishop myriel. This question is often asked by firsttime novelists, but before we delve into suggested word counts for novels and other genres, take a minute to consider these facts. When valjean breaks parole, javert relentlessly searches for the escapee. Les miserables penguin classics paperback april 29, 1982. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the fellowship of. He was a poet first and then a novelist and dramatist. Many, yes, but there are exceptions due to the layout and font size of a particular book.
At digne, he is repeatedly refused shelter for the night. Search for word count totals in books word counters. Wearable literature book scarves by storiarts on etsy les miserables book scarf by storiarts on etsy see more. Reading length is a participant in the amazon services llc associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites. After his release, valjean plans to rob monseigneur myriel, a saintlike bishop, but cancels his plan. The average novel is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. About six months after hubby and i got married we had our first big disagreement. As for the story itself, les miserables is simply one of the greatest stories ever told. Can you imagine how long typesetting must have taken in the early days of printing. How many words does les miserables unabridged version by victor hugo have. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Well, we all know that print size can vary to the extreme, so im using word count. Although hugo can be exceptionally wordy, the readers voice, inflections and style make it easy to listen, enjoy and just absorb the intent of what the author is communicating. Les miserables book scarf dont know that i would choose les mis but the idea is cool i can attest to these being very warm and comfortable. However, there are averages and rough word counts expected by publishers. So i measured my reading speed pages perminute and estimated the total reading time for the entire book to be 64 hours. Grace, moral philosophy, law and history of france are discussed. We tend to judge books on how thick they are, how many pages they.
Read at a comfortable level with word count and cefr level for every book. Each book has a certain amount of points, and i have to get atleast 140 pts. Sharp objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,7. Find images and videos about les miserables, les mis and marius on we heart it the app to get lost in what you love. If a writer wrote merely for his time, i would have to break my pen and throw it away, the largerthanlife victor hugo once confessed. Before we begin, i want to take a good, hard look at your goals. Jean valjean, a man who has spent 19 tortuous years in prison, in released on parole by the acclaimed officer, javert. The number of pages also doesnt help much, as publishers use different. The ultimate measure of a storys size is its wordcount, however, so the. I struggle to put into words how i feel about this.
Les miserables is a perfectly fine, if not good, cop thriller with a social urgency bubbling under the surface to provide added depth, but its no portrait of a lady on fire, which was sumptuous. Average sentence lengths of famous novels and authors. The longest novel is artamene ou le grand cyrus, originally published. I normally would never read an abridged version, but now i dont know if i should take the book back sometime next week and try to find an unabridged version, or if i. From laurence porters introduction to les miserables. Enjoy the tale of jean valjean with this les miserables book scarf. It will remain a classic in every sense of the word. Expressing the authors ideas about society, religion and politics, it is in the backdrop of napoleonic wars and ensuing years that the story unravels. The protagonist, jean valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread.
One day, an ex convict wanders into the bishops village and cant find any food or lodging because everyone turns him away. The key is to write a compelling story, no matter what the word count is. Reading length provides a calculation for the word count of this book, find out how long it will take you to read. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. A single word was heard, to the great surprise of the uninitiated. He is seventyfive years old and lives only with a sister baptistine, ten years younger than he, and an old servant, madame magloire, the same age as his sister. There are no hardandfast rules when it comes to what word count a novel in a particular genre should be. Compiling a list of longest novels yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are counted. Apart from the answers of other people you have the man without qualities robet musil, 1774 pages on the common edition, the tale of genji murasaki shikibu, 1210 pages on the common edition but with a lot more pages in the annot. Are there other classic books longer than war and peace. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page count leading many to assume the largest and thickest book equates to its length. Word count estimates are not guaranteed to be accurate. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher.
Posts about les miserables written by letepsilonbe. Les miserables by victor hugo les miserables eponines death from the book les mis eponines death book random thing. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read. Encompassing a multitude of plots, the narrative is bounded by the character of the protagonist, jean valjean.
This program is called book in 100 days, and before you begin writing your first page, you have to get really clear on how much youll need to write each day in order to finish your book in 100 days. We both had our own traditions with our own families and neither wanted to give them up. Books can be as short as 25,000 words, around 100 pages, or as long as 3. In the englishspeaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original french title. Not too many years ago, it was added to the required reading list for the agregation in french literature, the competitive state examination that qualifies teachers at advanced levels. The relentless policeman javert pursues escaped convict jean valjean for years through revolutionary france. For example, atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words.
How many words does les miserables unabridged version by. I went to the store today and bought les miserables, only to find out once i got home that it is the abridged version. Les miserables, victor hugo les miserables is a french historical novel by victor hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Jean valjean, after spending nineteen years in jail and in the galleys for stealing a loaf of bread and for several attempts to escape, is finally released, but his past keeps haunting him. The longest is the order of the phoenix with a word count of 257,000 words. As for the number of letter characters in the bible, the total count is a staggering 3,116,480. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference.
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