Sentence examples for bright books from inspiring English sources

Wittgenstein's Poker (Faber £10.99, pp267) by David Edmond and John Eidinow: another of those bright books that take a single moment and enlarges it into something else.

Even in the library, there are no bright book jackets to blast the eye.

I suspect that Wood agrees with DH Lawrence's description of the novel as 'the bright book of life'.

In his 1925 essay, "Why the Novel Matters", DH Lawrence celebrated the novel as the "one bright book of life".

Readers can't help wanting "the one bright book of life" to end at least consolingly, if not straight-up happily.

The Guardian reviewer Isabel Quigly called it "an extremely bright book, opening one's eyes to all sorts of aspects of youth".

They are as near as anything to Lawrence's own vision of the novel as 'the one bright book of life.' They are full of life.

If, in DH Lawrence's formulation, the novel is "the one bright book of life", then the life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours.

But there is another, more contradictory sense in which I think Wood uses the word "life", a usage he has inherited from Lawrence, who, in "Why the Novel Matters", claimed that the novel was the "one bright book of life".

And while Lawrence had a limitless faith in the novel's explanatory powers, in fiction's enormous capacity to be what he called "the bright book of life," Houellebecq, despite the occasional successes of this new book, is still an unconvincing and incoherent novelist, who seems afraid to trust imaginary drama with the full weight of actual crisis.

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