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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:33 am Post subject: How Long Is 50,000 Words? |
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Here's a short list of books that have about 50k words ... just to give you an idea of what you'll be creating ... length-wise.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
True Grit by Charles Portis
Generation X: Tales of an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Ghost Children by Sue Townsend
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Thank you again, to Chris Baty for compiling this list. |
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