Reading 1984. It appeared to me that Orwell liked lengthy sentences. I decided to come down to my computer and check a few other books. Just to compare. The longest Orwell’s sentence is 132 words/703 characters. Tolstoy’s… the longest sentence of War and Peace has 228 words/1293 characters. Nabokov is right on the heels of Tolstoy in terms of long sentences. 183 words/921 characters in the English (original) version of Lolita, and 209 words/1126 characters in its Russian translation! The screenshots are attached 🙂
Reading 1984. It seemed to me that Orwell uses a lot of long sentences. I quickly decided to go to my computer and compare with Tolstoy. The longest sentence by Orwell turned out to be 132 words and 703 characters without spaces, while Tolstoy’s longest was 228 words and 1293 characters. Then I found Nabokov’s Lolita in the original. The longest sentence in the English version is 183 words and 921 characters, and in the Russian version, it jumps to 209 words and 1126 characters—almost catching up to Tolstoy!
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