| Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States. |
| His editor has a talent for turning literary dross into gold. |
| A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers. |
| At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games. |
| His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers. |
| Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention. |
