sentences:  The work inspired Ward to create a wordless novel of his own, (1929), which he followed with "Madman's Drum" (1930), "Wild Pilgrimage" (1932), and the short "Prelude to a Million Years" (1933).Ward began engraving on "Song Without Words" while working on his longest wordless novel, "Vertigo" (1937), which took two years to complete.McNeer was pregnant with their second child and the couple were facing the same anxieties as the book's protagonist, and having worked through these issues they carried through the birth of daughter Robin.