Sentence examples for valuable literary from inspiring English sources

Though readers were not always informed of his compensation for, say, uncovering the truth of the Red-Headed League or bringing the Hound of the Baskervilles to heel, Holmes remains a valuable literary property.

Re "Poetry for Everyday Life," by David Brooks (column, April 12), about the "pervasiveness of metaphorical thinking": Certainly, metaphor is a valuable literary device, and to recognize beauty and creativity in ordinary speech is laudable.

For that book, he won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable literary prize ($150,000) for a single work of fiction, chosen from nominations made by public librarians worldwide.

Fifty years after the novel which more or less defined the Beat generation, was published in Britain, the Barber Institute in Birmingham is showing what is now one of the most valuable literary manuscripts in existence as part of its exhibition Jack Kerouac: Back On the Road.

British author Jim Crace has made the shortlist for one of the world's most valuable literary prizes for his Man Booker-shortlisted novel Harvest, the story of a medieval village about to be subsumed by a brutal new way of life.

When the going gets tough, though, as it tends to when you guard a valuable literary estate, it helps to have had a loving relationship with the author, because that background gives me the confidence to fight for what she would have wanted.

This material gives a colourful and valuable panorama of literary life in the first four centuries of Islam.

A list of winners that puts Pamuk and Houellebecq alongside Nicola Barker, Colm Tóibín and Jon McGregor also picks out a valuable strand of literary history.

In this intimate and valuable book of literary reportage by Sonia Faleiro nearly every word out of Leela's mouth is spit like a cartoon hornet.

In the end that's far more valuable, both in literary terms and in human ones, than any declaration of solidarity could be.

Though they were delighted by that most valuable specie of literary life, gossip, it was soon apparent what necessary company these brittle, gifted intelligences were.