The shortest short story was written by Henri of France. It only had seven words: The End. This short story uses the ending as a clue to reveal a series of events through a short dialogue. It reveals the complexity and deception of human nature and is known as one of Henry's representative works.
How many words is the shortest novel in the world? The answer was only one word.
It varies. Some consider the shortest novel to be just a few hundred words, but there's no strict consensus.
The shortest novel was a story about a man and a cat.
The number of words in the shortest novel can vary greatly. Some might be as short as a few thousand words.
The shortest ancient Chinese poem had four words.
It's hard to give an exact number because it can vary, but some of the shortest novels might have only a few hundred words.
The shortest novel in the history of China was written by Li Yishan, a writer of the Tang Dynasty. This poem only had four sentences, including a title and three sentences describing the scenery, totaling 20 words. This poem vividly depicted the beautiful scene of Nanzhuang in the capital city in a concise language and became one of the representative works of idyllic poetry in the Tang Dynasty.
The shortest book in the world was Journey to the West, which had a total of 285 words. The author was Wu Chengen, a novelist from the Ming Dynasty.
The shortest article in the world was an article with only three words. It was called "A Day of Monk's Bash". This article was from the novel " Yu Shi Ming Yan " by the Ming Dynasty writer Feng Menglong.
The shortest novel in the world was a line from the Three-Body Problem: " The law of the dark forest: survival of the fittest. There was an insurmountable gap between civilizations. A powerful civilization would inevitably destroy all civilizations around it. Every civilization is like a small bug in a dark forest that has to avoid the pursuit of other big bugs while accumulating as many resources as possible." There were less than 70 words in this sentence.