The world’s greatest novel?
May 08, 2020
2 minutes
he first measure of ‘greatness’ is the novel’s literary merit: it is a unique blend of philosophy, romance and action, with extraordinary insights into human nature and our capacity for intense inner lives. The other is size. Just as lengths of things are often compared to London buses, books get compared to . It contains 570,000 words (depending on, which runs to eleven million words).
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