Sentence examples for great compendium from inspiring English sources

In 1999, John Carey published a great compendium of excerpts on the theme of utopias and dystopias.

But for Tolkien buffs, the big draw will undoubtedly be Christopher's exploration of the relationship between "The Fall of Arthur" and "The Silmarillion," Tolkien's great compendium of legendary material.

For a long time the Historia was only partially known through an abstract in the great compendium of Vincent of Beauvais (Speculum historiale), made a generation after Giovanni's own and first printed in 1473.

This great compendium of art and culture on the edge of Central Park is about to rebuild its modern wing – in other words, to improve on what is already an unrivalled cocktail of past and present.

While rattling about in various businesses on the Ohio and then the Mississippi, while Lucy taught school to planters' children, he dreamed of publishing a great compendium of all the known birds of eastern America at life-size.

Arab (notably Egyptian!) commentators have argued that Shahrezad, the narrator/protagonist of that great compendium of Eastern tales, The Thousand and One Nights, is herself an incarnation of Isis.

The most widely known is Buddhaghosa (possibly 4th 5th century), to whom is also assigned the great scholarly compendium Visuddhimagga ("The Path of Purification"), which summarizes and explores morality (sila), meditation (samadhi), and wisdom (prajna).

The Outsiders is something of a "greatest hits" compendium for Seymour.

Salman Rushdie Three times in my life I've been given beautiful old editions of translations of the great story-compendium The Arabian Nights, or, to give it its proper title, The Thousand Nights and One Night.

As one of Bach's great late compendiums, ranking alongside the B minor Mass, "The Art of Fugue" and "A Musical Offering" (and part of a larger compendium, the other books of the "Clavierübung" encompassing the six keyboard partitas, the "Italian Concerto" and "French Overture," and the "Goldberg Variationss), the work merits broader exposure.

Dodgy decisions (1992's B-sides compendium, Greatest Misses ) and the explosion of MTV-friendly rap conspired against them their popularity waned.