That's the sprawling comic novel he published in 1975.

And Flaubert devoted a sprawling novel to stupidity: "Bouvard and Pécuchet."

Nearly all that is left of Dostoyevsky's sprawling novel of murder and redemption is a minor character, Katerina Ivanovna (the K. I. of the title).

In "Comanche Moon," McMurtry has created a sprawling, picaresque novel that, like the history of the West itself, leaves more than a few loose ends.

This sprawling novel is a fictionalized account of the author's own childhood during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Some hint of what else is possible can be found in Hugo's sprawling novel.

"American Fuji" is a more sprawling novel, a mystery and a love story set within an attempt to paint a larger portrait of Japanese life.

Set to a wittily eclectic score by Paul Sullivan, the piece is crammed with imagery that suggests the fluid shifts between dream and reality in Joyce's sprawling, allusive novel.

Morrow's sprawling, phantasmagorical ninth novel is a tale of rationality versus superstition, and of one woman's efforts to repeal the Witchcraft Act of 1604.

This sprawling novel was warmly received and established Franzen as an author to watch.