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  • LUIS ALEMANY

    Madrid

Updated on Wednesday, 26May2021-01: 43

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Last third of the 19th century:

War and Peace

(1867) has 1,225 pages;

Anna Karenina

(1877), 1041;

and

La regenta

(1844), 988.

First half of the 20th century:

The Great Gatsby

(1925) stays in 218;

San Manuel Bueno, martyr

(1931), in 176;

and

The Old Man and the Sea

(1951), at 127.

Second half of the 20th century and to the present day:

The name of the rose

(1980) reached 535 pages and was the

best seller

that created the mold of our time.

The Infinite Joke

(1996) by David Foster Wallace is over 1,200 pages long.

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