wild roses
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What if a book in split into two books, eg. War and Peace, does that then count as one or two books if both books are over 100 pages?
It's one book. And I can explain within a historical context:
From the 1700s-early 1900s, printers didn't have the ability to make text smaller. So, books, especially loooooong ones, were split into parts. From Austen to Dickens to Tolstoy to Fielding to Burney: everybody's published novels got split into parts. For example, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is 3 "books," even though it is only 1 novel, not 3 separate novels. However, back in the Victorian times, MP would be published in 3 separate books because that how the publishing industry was set up to handle large volumes (and they all wrote 1000 pages opuses back in the day).
Nowadays, printers can handle huge volumes, so it's not necessary to split up 1 novel into 3 separate parts. However, the literary industry is slightly sentimental and likes to honour its past, so when when classics are reprinted, the novel still "split" into separate sections within one book.
In short, W&P is a massive, very long, very wordy book, but it is all ONE book and ONE book only...so NO cheating!