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In 'Les Miserables', we don't meet Jean Valjean until p.105, about 4.2% into the novel.
What other literature features a significant delay before we meet the main characters?
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>>9698692
Godot takes his sweet time.
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>>9698692
The Odyssey
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b r a v o
if you exclude secondary characters from your list, Infinite Jest could be a contender
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The Master and Margarita
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Jesus is only in the second half of the Bible.
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>>9698692
Moby Dick
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>>9698692
Moby Dick takes a good 100 or so pages before you meet Ahab. Every page is glorious in that book but I can understand how someone might be surprised with how casually paced it is.
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Against the Day, anyone?
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>>9698692
This is only done with your version, you should get an average with other books. You need to take into account text size, page size, footnotes/endnotes, pictures, blank pages, translations, etc. I just find your statement to be a little biased, that's all
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