Sentence examples for marvelous book from inspiring English sources
"I Want My Hat Back" is a marvelous book in the true dictionary sense of "marvel": it is a wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes child laugh and adult chuckle, and both smile in appreciation.
This is a marvelous book to take on vacation.
He gave me as a gift a marvelous book of photographs portraying his life as an artist and politician.
And what a riveting tale Lawrence Wright fashions in this marvelous book.
Last year our reviewer, Max Byrd, called this a "marvelous book" and praised "the furiously dramatic rush of the narrative".
"The world is full of marvelous books".
In two marvelous books, "Confederates in the Attic" and "A Voyage Long and Strange," he followed her, meandering through the places where past and present bleed into each other.
We do have marvelous books by Primo Levi; "Fatelessness," by Imre Kertesz (who dismissed the film "Schindler's List" as kitsch); Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago"; and perhaps Wiesel's "Night," but it's a small list.
There are two quite marvelous books honoring the occasion, "Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters, the First Fifty Years 1912-1962" (W. W. Norton) and "The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002" (Ivan R. Dee).
I think that the notion presupposes longevity: I won't be including some marvelous books that were published in the last few years, because their impact on me remains to be determined (sometimes you know you've been hit hard, but sometimes you have to look back to find out how far you've been propelled).
