Sentence examples for respectable book from inspiring English sources

To write a tolerable book on most subjects is generally supposed to require some labour, some reflection, and some practised habits of composition, but when the subject is to describe a country or a nation, the public seems to suppose that everybody,—boys just out of college, ensigns in the guards, fine ladies, and titled boobies, can write a respectable book.

Settling in London, he enjoys early success as a writer with The Mind's Imaginings, a critically successful biography of Shelley; The Girl Factory, a salacious novel about prostitutes (which is poorly reviewed but sells well); and Les Cosmopolites, a respectable book on some obscure French poets.

Armstrong and many of the commenters, all smart adult women, are guiltily talking about ditching respectable books for "Ten Years Later…" (Armstrong writes, "I am rather crazed to drop the very good Dave Eggers book I am reading to return to all of them").

I can't say, as many can, that they made me come out or move to California, but I can say that they were as strong an influence on my early novels as more "respectable" books by Iris Murdoch, and that they gave a rather timid ex-public schoolboy the resolve always to be himself.

"I'm glad it's a respectable academic book, but since I used the techniques of a journalist, I think it's easy to read and not obscure," he said.

The family-run bank, which is more than 50 years old, had a respectable loan book with very few property loans or nonperforming assets.

A respectable prisoner was expected to read several books, good books, a month.

Dr Seuss is so amusing and egalitarian and free-thinking and so unlike all the more respectable English books I was given and liked as a child.

Grosset & Dunlap sold more than two million copies of the series before it went out of print, hardly Harry Potter numbers but respectable for books directed at teenage boys, notorious nonreaders.

(Sales have been respectable, but the book has been far from a best seller).

One reason is hinted at in Lynsey Hanley's excellent book Respectable, about the working-class estate in Birmingham where she grew up.