"composition of the book" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you would like to refer to the structure of a book, such as when discussing the individual components that make up a book, or its organization. For example: "The composition of the book focuses on the struggles of two characters as they navigate their way through a challenging situation."
James Baldwin, who had been a friend for many years, and who lived briefly with the Styrons at their Roxbury home during the composition of the book, said: "He has begun the common history - ours".
Citing manifestations of the Godhead atop Horeb and Sinai, Milton seeks inspiration comparable to that visited upon Moses, to whom is ascribed the composition of the book of Genesis.
Elsewhere on the Reading Group homepage other posts will appear at regular intervals drawing out a few other themes: Thanks to a suggestion from Everythingsperfect, there will be a post about America in the 1950s and the background and context for the composition of the book.
This is followed by proposals for the development of the curriculum, the main subjects of which should be "The Art of the Book Font","The Art of Artistic Bookbinding","The Composition of the Book Illustration", Computer Technology in Book Design", Stages and Technologies of the Printing Process".
Haley "took pains to show how Malcolm dominated their relationship and tried to control the composition of the book", writes Rampersad.
As Bart Ehrman has recently argued, the checkered history of the composition of these books undermines the integrity of the New Testament as a whole.
The Heian was a time of literary productivity that also saw the composition of "The Pillow Book," Sei Shonagon's exquisitely detailed and refined record of court life, and a wealth of tanka poems.
In the composition of any book, the writer has to determine what to leave it and what to take out.
More recently, it was the composition of another book by Sorensen, the memoir titled "Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History," that was the subject of a Talk of the Town story by Jeffrey Toobin.
Their clever "Exclamation Mark" is set on a sheet of lined composition paper, the book's only background.
Descartes' correspondence with Princess Elisabeth led directly to the composition of his final book, The Passions of the Soul, a large part of which was written during the winter of 1645 6.
