No, doubt it was Hawthorne. I actually went looking, but couldn't find anything. Did, however, find some indication that good as you guys are, you've a long way to go
Jonathan Coe’s novel The Rotters’ Club may have broken the world record for the longest sentence in English-language fiction — at 13,955 words it is not as long as the 40,000 word sentence in a Polish novel which was translated as Gates of Paradise, or a Czech novel entirely composed of a single sentence
A whole novel? Heavens to Murgatroyd!
LabRat
