These three books, along with four additional books composed of papers, essays and more, have been recently republished in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid.
These episodes are grouped into four separate seasons ("Books") composed of twelve to fourteen episodes ("Chapters") each, with each season telling a stand-alone story.
The poems that follow make up the best set, in a book composed of groups of poems.
In a similar spirit, Auster's book — composed of loosely organized fragments and written, coquettishly, in the second person — scarcely mentions his other writing.
Most, though not quite all, of the friends he mentions are famous.A book composed of an amalgam of impressions, narrative, long swathes of dialogue and casual stories may sound unpromising.
Meditations on the frieze lead Harbison to Peter Weiss's "immense historico-political novel 'The Aesthetics of Resistance,' " a book composed of "unwieldy blocks" of prose, not unlike the unwieldy fragments of stone that the Pergamon frieze has become over time.
"Then & Now," a book composed of two sets of photographs — one taken in 1973 and the other in 2004 — of every lot on Hollywood Boulevard, from the 8800 block to the 4500, is a three-decades-long time capsule.
Borges's librarian recounts the discovery of a book "composed of the letters MCV perversely repeated from the first line to the last", and of another, "very much consulted in this zone... a mere labyrinth of letters, but on the next-to-the-last page, one may read O Time your pyramids".
"Then & Now," a book composed of two sets of… Late yesterday afternoon, I got a text message from a friend who was in the courtroom when the jury in the Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen… James Frey's novel about Los Angeles, "Bright Shiny Morning," has had a coastally polarizing effect.
This new turn in language and its technological aid, the iPhonelike "handset," is handled so deftly, that here — as everywhere in this book composed of sharp, confident, and nearly cruel emotional thrusts (what might be gimmicks in another writer's hands) — we follow Egan with excitement.
The book, composed of accounts of (fictitious) lectures on the silver issue given by an adolescent named Coin to Chicago audiences, became an immense bestseller.
