How many pages is the largest single-volume work of fiction?

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1,500 I believe. (The author) moved back to Calcutta, India, to live with his parents in the late 1980s. He wanted to write something that would capture the sweep of history from India's independence up to present day, so he invented four Indian families and told what happened to each of them in the wake of India's independence. After several years of writing, he sent the manuscript to his agent. It was 5,000 pages long. His editor helped him trim it down to about 1,500 pages, but the novel, A Suitable Boy (1993), became the longest single-volume work of fiction in English since 1747. It became a best-seller in India, England, and the United States. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/06/20 The novel is 1471 pages long, and was by Vikram Seth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Suitable_Boy Feb 07 09, 2:47 PM