What was Jane Austen's longest sentence?

Answer 1

Nigel Tomm's The Blah Story is the longest novel ever published. Up to now (2008) ten volumes are released, they contain 3,277,227 words; 18,308,104 characters (with spaces); 7312 pages.

Answer 2

The longest sentence in English literature is contained in four volumes of Nigel Tomm's novel The Blah Story (Volume 16, 17, 18 and 19). The sentence contains 2,403,109 words; 15,403,732 characters (with spaces); 3,248 pages. By the way, this sentence contains the longest 3,609,750-letter word 'somewhenot…dingown'.

Traditionally, the longest sentence in English literature has been found in James Joce's 'Ulysses' which contains 4,391 words. however this was surpassed in 2001 by Jonathan Coe and his book 'The Rotter's Club' which contains a sentence 13,955 words long.

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'Transportation for life' [The sentence handed down to Magwitch in Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Couldn't get much longer, could it?

Answer 3

Persuasion Chapter 11

193 words:

For, though shy, he did not seem reserved; it had rather the appearance of feelings glad to burst their usual restraints; and having talked of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other; he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Answer 4

The "Guinness Book of World Records" says that Marcel Proust's "� la recherche du temps perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past" or "In Search of Lost Time") holds the world record for the longest novel, at approximately 9,609,000 characters. But the novel is presented in multiple volumes, so sticklers don't always agree with Guinness.

"A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth has 1,349 pages and approximately 3,374,000 characters. It's claimed to be the "longest single volume novel ever published" in English. Before Seth's novel, others turned to Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" as the longest novel with over a million words (and about 5,500,000 characters). This is where all the character, word, and volume counts blur and we begin to get a headache -- because sometimes "Clarissa" is published as one intact book, and sometimes it's in volumes.

For simplicity's sake, we'll go with Proust.

Answer 5

The longest sentence written by Jane Austen is in "Emma," where there is a sentence that is 240 words long. It is a complex sentence that displays Austen's skill in weaving together character motivations and emotions.

Answer 6

Well the longest sentence is your mammas face:)