Published Examples
- 1,288 words - The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest sentence in English, from William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom!.
- 12,931 words - The last section of James Joyce's Ulysses, Molly Bloom's soliloquy, consists of two sentences. The first one is 11,282 words long, and the second is 12,931 words long.
- 13,955 words - Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club contains a 13,955-word sentence.
- 469,375 words - Nigel Tomm's one-sentence novel, which does not have a proper subject-verb interaction, "The Blah Story"
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