Despite its dyspeptic protagonist and lofty themes, "The Book Against God" is, essentially, a comic novel, very much in the curmudgeonly tradition of Amis (père) and Waugh; it's filled with the kind of despairing portraits of Englishness, and wickedly funny sketches of distinctively English eccentric "types," that we expect of a certain kind of British writing.
For instance, what his predecessor John Adams had used as a formalreception room — today's State Dining Room — Jefferson turned into his office, crowding the lofty space with books from his library,trunks filled with files and a long table with many drawers, into which Jefferson personally sorted his correspondence.
And the book has lofty implications, tacitly claiming for the new market world all of the glory and the righteousness associated with multiculturalism.
The book, a lofty white tome weighing in at more than six pounds, is beautiful to explore, with tantalizing photos that will send you immediately to your phone to book a restaurant reservation.
Mr. Eggers at first harbored even loftier ambitions for the book's physical shape.
But despite these lofty antecedents, the comic-book form until recently has been unable to shed a certain aura of pulpiness, cheesiness and semi-literacy.
More than half a century later, Pound's 86-year-old daughter still savours the isolation of Brunnenburg castle's lofty wood-panelled and book-lined rooms, where she reads the poem to visitors and mulls over her extraordinary upbringing by the renegade US poet.
The same types of ideas like social impact, however must lead these discussions, too - because while yes, we are talking about oft baffling books and lofty languages and traditional texts, religion is still also talking about real people and experiences.
Usually referred to simply as "On the Revolutions," the book occupies a lofty place in the history of modern science.
With all its bland absurdity, Tuten's book took a lofty tone; it was a collage of his soul's contents, where militant socialism and languid aestheticism coexisted in peaceful stalemate.
