Together, his novels sold tens of millions of copies, his literary agent, Phyllis Westberg, said yesterday.
1,091 hot, large, open-faced meat pirozhki (belyashi) at a cafeteria, 1,091 copies of Literary Newspaper, 1,091 portions of chocolate ice cream on a stick (Eskimo).
It is possible that the demand for copies of literary works was so small that it could be satisfied with manuscripts, costly though they were; or perhaps aesthetic considerations made the Japanese prefer manuscripts in beautiful calligraphy, sometimes embellished with illustrations.
Like taʿlīq, this is a fluid and elegant script, and both were popularly used for copying Persian literary works.
Scribes of the New Kingdom canonized and copied many literary texts written in Middle Egyptian, which remained the language used for oral readings of sacred hieroglyphic texts.
He developed his entrepreneurial skills at an early age, peddling copies of the Literary Digest as a 10-year-old.
When Alex Ross started writing The Rest is Noise in 2000 he never expected that a book about 20th-century classical music would go on to sell 250,000 copies and win literary prizes around the world – including the Guardian First Book Award.
Later, when writing a story for a creative-writing class, he tried the same method — but this time he lifted whole paragraphs of prose that he found in bound copies of old literary journals (Transition, The Transatlantic Review) in the Oberlin library.
It is unknown how many times in their combined tenure that Mrs. Krasniewicz and Mrs. McClelland replaced Perrot's loved-to-bits copies of that literary lullaby "Goodnight Moon," which has sold more than 14 million copies in the 62 years since its publication.
As she spoke she clutched copies of the literary journals White Chocolate and the University of Southern Kansas-North CampUniversity of Southern Kansas-North
