Dream or Memory

[loracs]

Is there such a thing as a novel written as a vocabulary builder for adults? I dreamed about such a thing last night, but this morning it felt like a real life memory. This book used "big" or arcane words. And in the back, much like "A Clockwork Orange", there is a dictionary, but it includes every word in the book. (Then you don't have to wonder was "is" is!)

I would imagine this to be a very cumbersome book, unless it was a novella and it used small type, esp. for the dictionary part. On the other hand, I wonder how many different words a novel normally would use and what could you bump it up to if the object was to increase vocabulary?