List of novels whose action takes place within 24 hours

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While in drama the Unity of Time prescribes that the action of a play is to take place during a single day, the novel as a rule covers a much longer period of time. There are, however, some notable examples where the time narrated is only one day. The most prominent example is James Joyce's Ulysses, a novel which in one way or another has influenced the genesis of other novels whose action takes place within 24 hours.

• Henry Green: Party Going and Concluding
• James Hanley: No Directions
• James Joyce: Ulysses
• David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down
• Ian McEwan: Saturday
• Brian Moore: I Am Mary Dunne
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (as the title suggests)
• Christos Tsiolkas: Loaded
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

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