Sentence examples for immense book from inspiring English sources

Prof. K. has written an immense book entitled "Shakespeare Pronunciation".

He explained: "One floor fell on top of another," so that as many as 10 floors were compressed into about a foot of space, like an immense book.

You could console yourself by reading 45 by Bill Drummond, which features some of the same characters (and is an immense book in its own right).

Sometimes his politics intrude too much: nowhere in an immense book filled with details about both world wars can he find the space to mention the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most important battles in history.

Mr. Updike's narrator, an apparent alter-ego, reports a desire to write "an immense book about this man... recounting his every move, his every meal... everything all set sequentially down with the bald simplicity of intrinsic blessing, thousands of pages, ecstatically uneventful".

As Edith Durham, a noted authority on the Balkans, bitchily put it at the time, "The novelist Miss West has written an immense book on the strength of one pleasure trip to Yugoslavia, but with no previous knowledge of land or people".

"An arduous and impoverishing delirium, that of composing immense books," Jorge Luis Borges remarked in the prologue to "Ficciones," his own best-known anthology of short stories; a "better procedure is to simulate that those books already exist and offer a commentary".

No matter: his wealth is in his mind, in the pages of the immense battered book he holds in one hand.

To get a better idea of how the Pilgrims lived you need to visit the American Pilgrim Museum, a brick house near the Hooglandse Kerk presided over by the genial and drily ironic Jeremy Bangs, author of the immense and immensely knowledgeable book "Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation" (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2009).

When the couple contemplated selling books online, they studied Amazon, and quickly recognized that one of Amazon's advantages was its immense database of book and music titles.

In this way, to Murray's immense gratification, the book ultimately helped render itself obsolete.