Sentence examples for a lost book. from inspiring English sources

Umberto Eco structured "The Name of the Rose" around a lost book which none of the characters had read, but about which each nonetheless had strong views.

A lost book is also different from one that was never written; a work that existed creates what Van Straten calls a "void", which we fill with ideas of what might have been.

"It took about a day and a night for it to really hit me hard just what this was, in essence: a lost book, and a most unusual one, by Walt Whitman himself".

I was inspired by the following passage, which erupts with the introduction of a lost book and continues as a flashback in a movie theatre during a power outage; it seemed, stylistically and historically, like a prequel to Roberto Bolaño's portrayal of Mexico in "2666": M. Laruelle glanced in the flyleaf again, then shut the book on the counter.

Rabbi Isaac Pulgar in the third part of his work (Ezer Ha-Dat); Rabbi Moses from Narbonne in a special philosophical response; and Rabbi Joseh Ben Shem Tov in a lost book that he quotes in his commentary of the Ethics to Nicomachus.

In his novel, The Name of the Rose, an ancient monk commits a series of murders to keep secret the existence of a lost book by Aristotle, on the subject of comedy.

A lost book-within-a-book propels this ambitious novel.

Magical creatures suddenly gather as a woman opens a legendary lost book.

In "The Book of Lost Fragrances," author M.J. Rose spins a heady tale of reincarnation, soul mates, ancient Egypt, a French perfume company and a fabled lost book that sparks international intrigue.

According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.

In addition to loan expansion, there will be a slight increase in lost book charges, which were last increased in 2002.