Sentence examples for literary milestone from inspiring English sources

His popularity marked a literary milestone.

In Cold Blood, his true-life chronicle of the slaying of the Clutter family in Kansas, published in 1966, was a literary milestone that rocketed him to fame and prestige.

The author of this literary milestone is a strangely appealing literary hustler of nearly 60 years old originally named Daniel Foe (he added "De" to improve his social standing), a one-time journalist, pamphleteer, jack of all trades and spy.

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000) Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia's infamous antihero, Ned Kelly.

Goethe's first novel, "The Sorrows of Young Werther," is better known, mainly because it represented such an enormous milestone in literary history; the first German international best-seller, it is said to have started a craze for suicide among young people emulating its hero.

It is a fanciful, candid and often hilarious romp not only through the milestones of literary and dramatic literature (high and low), but also a powerfully poignant and uplifting journey through Plummer's own remarkable life.

There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs.' Milestones in a literary life Born: 10 June 1915 in Quebec.

Two milestones bracketed the literary year: the sudden death of Juan Benet in January (see OBITUARIES) and the award in December of the Cervantes Prize, the highest honour in Hispanic letters, to the prolific novelist Miguel Delibes.

While literary history normally avoids using political milestones to define literary epochs, we can hardly ignore that (particularly when it comes to modern Czech literature) historical events and social changes had a direct impact on the quality of literary life and its products.

The tribute also includes a lecture tonight by the literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom, who celebrated his own milestone birthday this year when he turned 75.

Mexican literary great, Carlos Fuentes has called Yo, el Supremo one of the milestones in Latin American literature.