What is the longest novel ever written?
List of longest novels
This is a list of the longest novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. The longest novel is "Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus", originally published (1649–54) in ten parts, each part in three volumes. "Artamène" is generally attributed to Madeleine de Scudéry.
Bleak House
George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton are among those literary critics and writers who consider "Bleak House" to be the best novel that Charles Dickens wrote. As Chesterton put it: ""Bleak House" is not certainly Dickens's best book; but perhaps it is his best novel". Harold Bloom, in his book "The Western Canon", considers "Bleak House" to be Dickens's greatest novel. Daniel Burt, in his book "The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time", ranks "Bleak House" number 12. Horror and supernatural fiction author Stephen King named it among his top 10 favourite books.