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his most famous novel is regarded as a masterwork of Western literature
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.
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Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
Jealous and plagued by his own personal issues, Victor decides to rid himself of his masterwork, a choice that takes its toll on both Victor and the Creature and leads to an epic chase that leaves tragedy and death in its wake.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Here are some of the (streamable) masterworks that helped to do so.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The tambourine-wielding doll wears a witchy, all-black look lifted from the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterwork.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
Jealous and plagued by his own personal issues, Victor decides to rid himself of his masterwork, a choice that takes its toll on both Victor and the Creature and leads to an epic chase that leaves tragedy and death in its wake.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Here are some of the (streamable) masterworks that helped to do so.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The tambourine-wielding doll wears a witchy, all-black look lifted from the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterwork.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for masterwork
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“Masterwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masterwork. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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