Sentence examples for contemporary readership from inspiring English sources
Although the psychological intensity and technical innovation of these two novels were scarcely calculated to ensure a large contemporary readership, Faulkner's name was beginning to be known in the early 1930s, and he was able to place short stories even in such popular and well-paying magazines as Collier's and Saturday Evening Post.
The Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which renowned authors rework Shakespeare's classic plays for a contemporary readership, has given us Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl (The Taming of the Shrew), Howard Jacobsen's Shylock Is My Name (The Merchant of Venice) and Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time (A Winter's Tale).
Publisher Random House hopes it will bring Shakespeare "alive for a contemporary readership", and plans to kick off the programme with prose "retellings" of The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's late play of jealousy and forgiveness, from Whitbread award-winner Winterson, and The Taming of the Shrew from the Pulitzer-winning American novelist Anne Tyler.
I have a strong contemporary romance readership, and I never imagined that writing LGBT might put that at risk.
It has never had a wide readership, and contemporary judgements on Sigurd tend to depend upon the judge's opinion of Morris's verse in general.
Comprising £10,000 and a nudge to the door leading out of gloomy obscurity, the award for the best new collection was created by the Forward Arts Foundation to bring contemporary poetry to a wider readership.
After his banishment he addressed himself to Italians generally, and devoted much of his long exile to transmitting the riches of ancient thought and learning, as these informed contemporary scholastic culture, to an increasingly sophisticated lay readership in their own vernacular.
When writing in Latin, More could assume a sophisticated and informed readership, able to handle his criticism of contemporary abuses without drawing false conclusions.
While Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac is the one often mentioned in contemporary history classes, at the time Ames Almanackk enjoyed a much larger readership.
If there is a criticism, it is that Beaumont sometimes brings in contemporary voices – experts and other historians – without the appropriate introduction that a general readership requires.
She has an easygoing, even chatty prose style, willfully different from much contemporary academic writing and clearly aimed at a general rather than a specialized readership.
