Comments on: A Novel IS Fiction

By: Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:24:25 +0000

Thanks for this. I am so tired of this conversation:
What do you write?
I’m working on a novel.
Oh – you mean a fiction novel?
Nuff said.

By: guy

guy — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:57:18 +0000

You guys shouldn’t really be using Wikipedia as a reliable source.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:20:06 +0000

Lai Ka Yau
Seven volumes is right.

When I wrote this post, I was quoting from the following paragraph that I found in a Wikipedia article:

Longest conventionally-read novel. 9,609,000 characters, nearly 1.5 million words. Holds the Guinness Book of Records title as Longest Novel. Published in 13 volumes from 1913 to 1927. English translation is titled Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time.

That should remind me to go back to the original when possible. I’ll be correcting the article.

Thanks,
Maeve

By: Lai Ka Yau

Lai Ka Yau — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:23:58 +0000

According to Wikipedia, A la recherche du temps perdu was published in 7 volumes.

By: Lai Ka Yau

Lai Ka Yau — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:43:48 +0000

Does The Old Man and the Sea really qualify for a novella, and does The Call of the Wild qualify for a novel? I’ve heard these books being classified as above, but they both seem a little short.
And in what category do A Christmas Carol and The Invisible Man fall in?