Sentence examples for literary undertaking from inspiring English sources

Writing was only part of the literary undertaking.

The illustration might have been more conventional and included the slender fingers and wrist of a woman, had it not been designated a major literary undertaking.

But McInerney can speak with authority on second-person narration, having written Bright Lights, Big City, one of the more successful examples of this rare literary undertaking.

My most recent big literary undertaking has been, in terms of sheer pages, the most sizable of all: Dickens's complete fiction.

Using elliptical prose, blank spaces, crossed-out text, and Lakota words, Long Soldier articulates both her identity and her literary undertaking: "In this dual citizenship, I must work, I must eat, I must art".

Stevenson has said in an interview that the third volume of this supposedly "historical" trilogy will be set in our own century, making it clear that "The Shadow King" is a linking volume in an unusual literary undertaking that will best be judged when we have all three novels in hand.

In 1916, the Literary Digest undertook one of the first national election surveys, by mailing out millions of postcards and then simply counting the returns.

Back in my early 20s, in a fit of literary conscientiousness, I undertook to sample his work.

In its day, Pilgrimage was regarded as one of the most important and influential literary experiments ever undertaken.

The first was a feat of literary detection he undertook with the director (and future BBC grandee) Will Wyatt.

Mentioned as the son of the later Rev. James Henry Wiggin, who sorsook the pulpit for a literary agency and undertook in 1855 the role of ghost-writer for Mary Baker Eddy.