tome

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Gorgeously produced with a cornucopia of photos and movie stills, this tome clocks in at 501 pages and answers almost every question you ever had about the legendary filmmaker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

But what I found when I dug into the nearly 500-page tome is that we never should have listened to Attia in the first place.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

The onscreen version of Keaton is stumped when Alvy Singer brings her a copy of the philosophical tome “Death and Western Thought.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

Then there are accompanying documents - in this instance in particular a blue-covered, 128-page tome crammed with words, numbers and graphs.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

With its iron bindings, the tome weighed seventy-five pounds.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown