Sentence examples for significant books from inspiring English sources

Publisher Jamie Byng said Slahi's account was one of the most significant books Canongate would ever publish.

At opportune moments, Qwilleran's cats throw up clues, as when they pull highly significant books down from shelves.

All the while he continued to turn out significant books written with great clarity, although their underlying ideas are considered sometimes forbiddingly compressed and obscure.

Turn on television and you find Oprah is, of course, the devotee of new, sometimes obscure, and sometimes truly worthy, significant books.

You could see his painting spanning the decades between the two most significant books published in his lifetime: Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.

Richard Ovenden, interim Bodley's librarian, says: "We hope that through digitizing and making openly accessible some of the most significant books in our collections we will increase their potential for research and broader understanding of these ancient texts".

This is a very significant book.

Given the author and subject, "Kate Remembered" will be a significant book, but it is up against some big summer sellers.

Now, with leisure to formulate his ideas, he wrote his first significant book, Qu'est-ce que la propriété?

Sometimes these advance reading copies are accompanied by letters from publishers or editors making an extra effort to sell what they consider a significant book.

But the anthology does not change the impression that Lowry was a writer who brought only one significant book to fruition.