Sentence examples for literary guide from inspiring English sources

Once again Thoreau served as a literary guide.

In my 20s, I had written a full-length non-fiction book: a literary guide to Oxford.

Lipper read books about power"Memoirs of Hadrian," "Marat/SadeO; he studied an old literary guide laying out the thirty-six mother plots of all stories.

Surprisingly, Waters turned out to be exactly the kind of literary guide I've been describing: blazing with passion, a born lapel-grabber.

* Most places closed on Saturdays Marie-José Gransard is author of Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers, published by IB Tauris (£16.99).

"For Stein, Peter Nichollss writes in his important book, "Modernisms: A Literary Guide," "language is to be grasped not as a means of reference to a world of objects which can be dominated, but as a medium of consciousness".

His literary guides were Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Vargas Llosa's Conversation in a Cathedral and Günter Grass's Dog Years: "complex narratives about the relationship of storytelling to history - tragic history".

A Web site called cheatbooks.com offers literary guides from six brand names, including Bloom's Reviews, written under the direction of Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and a guru of Great Books, and new, updated CliffsNotes, which have been redesigned for a microwave age, with less dense type and catchy icons to alert readers to themes, character insights and literary devices.

I look up from my copy of Fear and Loathing to see that my literary tour guide for the evening has turned up.

When Mr. Ferlinghetti's conversation with Mr. Bauersfeld was over, the strangers, many wearing backpacks and chattering in foreign languages, lined up for him to sign "The Beat Generation in San Francisco," a literary tour guide by Bill Morgan, published by City Lights.

Christopher Cokinos directs the creative writing program at the University of Arizona and is the author of "Bodies, of the Holocene" and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology "A Literary Field Guide to the Sonoran Desert".