Sentence examples for brilliant manuscript from inspiring English sources

Following the accidental death of his roommate, a stockboy in a Manhattan bookstore thinks he's pulled off the perfect crime by passing off his roomie's brilliant manuscript as his own: sure enough, he becomes a literary celebrity, but he fails to cover all his tracks.

So a few years ago, when he found himself reading a brilliant manuscript that its author, PhD creative writing student DD Johnston, had set out to make "unpublishable", Goodman decided to take up the gauntlet: he would start a publishing house and acquire the novel.

When a biographer authorized by the Kerouac estate is enabled to quote freely from the archives, the questions posed by those ­ really quite brilliant" manuscripts might be answered: if not by the biographer, then by that most competent of all judges, the reader.

Are they suppressing dozens of brilliant manuscripts for fear of rocking the establishment?

Despite Cuba's recent "opening," it is still a country where the tenets of the revolution hold sway, and our image of the place, advanced by our government's refusal to do business there and by its governments' political record, includes scenes of dissident writers lurking in crumbling circumstances with brilliant unpublished manuscripts locked away in drawers.

Copyists and interpreters have always supplemented the canonical writings in one form or another, from explanatory margin notes by translators, to the Masoretes adding vowel pointing and Qere and Ketiv (notes) to aid Hebrew pronunciation, to the brilliant illuminations of medieval manuscripts, to the addition of chapter and verse numbers centuries after the original compositions.

Sue Armstrong at Conville & Walsh, who signed Cole after being sent three sample chapters of his manuscript, Ragdoll, described him as a "brilliant writer".

And for 10 years he struggled with a series of failed manuscripts until in 1962 Tom Maschler, then starting a brilliant publishing career at Jonathan Cape, snapped up "The Collector".

Illuminated manuscript, handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures.

Based on Marci's letter found with the manuscript, Voynich became convinced the book was the work of the brilliant thirteenth-century Franciscan friar and Englishman Roger Bacon.

In 1969, Kuznetsov smuggled his complete manuscript to the West; the following year, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published an unexpurgated English translation, with a brilliant twist.